The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 14
Sin could see he was the king fish by the reverent manner with which the others regarded him.
Who acts: Sin, others · What happens: see, be, regard · To what, where: king fish, Sin · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sin, others), 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 | Sin | sin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | aux |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 fish | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fish | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fish | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fish | compound |
| 8 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | ccomp |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 manner | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 manner | det |
| 11 | reverent | reverent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 manner | amod |
| 12 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 regarded | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 others | det |
| 16 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 regarded | nsubj |
| 17 | regarded | regard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 manner | acl:relcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 regarded | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could | Sin | by the reverent manner | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Sin | the king fish | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | regard | past | the others | Sin | with the reverent manner | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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