The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 37
The demon of hunger whispered to him, “Eat it; never mind what the old carp said, he knows less than you do.
Who acts: demon, old carp, Sin · What happens: whisper, eat, not mind, say, know, do · To what, where: Sin, demon, less · 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 (demon, old carp, Sin), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 demon | det |
| 2 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 whispered | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 hunger | case |
| 4 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 demon | nmod |
| 5 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 whispered | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Eat | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Eat | punct |
| 10 | Eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 whispered | parataxis |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 Eat | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 mind | punct |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 mind | advmod |
| 14 | mind | mind | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 whispered | parataxis |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 mind | obj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 carp | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 carp | amod |
| 18 | carp | carp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 said | nsubj |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 what | acl:relcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 knows | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 knows | nsubj |
| 22 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 mind | advcl |
| 23 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 knows | obj |
| 24 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 26 do | mark |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 do | nsubj |
| 26 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 less | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: assert | past | the demon of hunger | Sin | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | eat in a quote | infinitive | demon | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||||
| 3 | not mind in a quote | infinitive | what obj | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the old carp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | know in a quote | present | Sin | less | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer less=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | do in a quote | present | Sin | vn act-114-1 «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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