The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 30
On perceiving this, Perie Banou exclaimed, “What, prince!
Who acts: Perie · What happens: perceive, exclaim · To what, where: this
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Perie), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 perceiving | mark |
| 2 | perceiving | perceive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 exclaimed | advcl |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 perceiving | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 perceiving | punct |
| 5 | Perie | Perie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 6 | Banou | Banou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Perie | flat |
| 7 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 What | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 What | punct |
| 10 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 exclaimed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 prince | punct |
| 12 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 What | nsubj |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perceive | gerund | Perie not said here | this | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | Perie | What prince obj | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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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