The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 67
“Vizier,” he one day said, “thou knowest I always loved Ahmed the most of all my sons.
Who acts: Prince, thou · What happens: say, know, love · To what, where: Ahmed · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, thou), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Vizier | punct |
| 2 | Vizier | vizier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Vizier | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Vizier | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 day | nummod |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 knowest | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 knowest | punct |
| 11 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 knowest | nsubj |
| 12 | knowest | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 loved | nsubj |
| 14 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 15 loved | advmod |
| 15 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 knowest | ccomp |
| 16 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 loved | obj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 most | det |
| 18 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 15 loved | advmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 sons | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 sons | det:predet |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 sons | nmod:poss |
| 22 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 most | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Prince | Vizier ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present | thou | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | love in a quote | past | Prince | Ahmed | always property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ahmed=Stimulus |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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