The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 11
“Wilt thou not speak, then?” he exclaimed, and let it fall directly on the sultan’s head, and crushed him to the earth.
Who acts: thou, Schaibar, bar · What happens: not speak, exclaim, let, fall, crush · To what, where: bar, head, Schaibar · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, Schaibar, bar), 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 | _ | 5 speak | punct |
| 2 | Wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 5 speak | aux |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 speak | nsubj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 speak | advmod |
| 5 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 exclaimed | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 then | punct |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 speak | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 speak | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 speak | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 11 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 let | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 let | cc |
| 14 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 exclaimed | ccomp |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 let | obj |
| 16 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 let | xcomp |
| 17 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 16 fall | advmod |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 head | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sultan | det |
| 20 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 head | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 sultan | case |
| 22 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fall | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 crushed | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 crushed | cc |
| 25 | crushed | crush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 exclaimed | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 crushed | obj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 earth | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 earth | det |
| 29 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 crushed | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not speak speech: other in a quote | future | thou | then | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | Schaibar | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | bar | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | fall | infinitive | bar not said here | the sultan's head | directly property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on head=Location | |||
| 5 | crush | past | Schaibar not said here | Schaibar | to the earth result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient to earth=Result |
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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