The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 73
“Where is the man that wants to fight?
Who acts: man · What happens: be, want, fight
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 (man), 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 Where | punct |
| 2 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Where | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Where | nsubj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 wants | nsubj |
| 7 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 man | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 fight | mark |
| 9 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wants | xcomp |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Where | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the man | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | want in a quote | present | the man | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fight not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the man not said here | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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