The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 61
“We are warriors,” replied the man in red, “and we go up and down the world killing whatever we see that has life.
Who acts: We, warriors, that · What happens: be, reply, go up, kill, see, have · To what, where: warriors, man, red, whatever, life · 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 (We, warriors, that), 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 | _ | 4 warriors | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 warriors | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 warriors | cop |
| 4 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 warriors | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 warriors | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 red | case |
| 11 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 replied | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 go | cc |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 go | nsubj |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 replied | conj |
| 17 | up | up | ADV | _ | 16 go | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 world | cc |
| 19 | down | down | ADP | _ | 21 world | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 world | det |
| 21 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 up | conj |
| 22 | killing | kill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 go | advcl |
| 23 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 see | obj |
| 24 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 see | nsubj |
| 25 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 killing | advcl |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 has | nsubj |
| 27 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 see | ccomp |
| 28 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 has | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | We | warriors | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | warriors | the man | red | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic | |||
| 3 | go up in a quote | present | we | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | kill in a quote | gerund | we not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | see in a quote | present | we | whatever | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | have in a quote | present | that | life | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient |
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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