The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 44
He spoke to him as well as he could, and said: “Let me go, Chang; I am your master, Sin, and not a fish; take this awful hook out of my mouth, and put me back into the water at once.”
Who acts: Sin · What happens: speak, say, let, go, be, take · To what, where: king, Sin, master, awful hook, mouth, water · 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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 spoke | nsubj |
| 2 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 spoke | obl |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 well | advmod |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 spoke | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 could | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 could | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 well | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 spoke | conj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 Let | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Let | punct |
| 15 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 Let | obj |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 Let | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Chang | punct |
| 19 | Chang | Chang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Let | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 master | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 master | nsubj |
| 22 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 master | cop |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 master | nmod:poss |
| 24 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spoke | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Sin | punct |
| 26 | Sin | Sin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 master | appos |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 fish | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 fish | cc |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 fish | advmod |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 fish | det |
| 31 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 master | conj |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 take | punct |
| 33 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 spoke | parataxis |
| 34 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 hook | det |
| 35 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 hook | amod |
| 36 | hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 take | obj |
| 37 | out | out | ADP | _ | 40 mouth | case |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 mouth | case |
| 39 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 40 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 take | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 put | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 put | cc |
| 43 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 33 take | conj |
| 44 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 43 put | obj |
| 45 | back | back | ADV | _ | 43 put | advmod |
| 46 | into | into | ADP | _ | 48 water | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 water | det |
| 48 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 put | obl |
| 49 | at | at | ADP | _ | 50 once | case |
| 50 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 43 put | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 take | punct |
| 52 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | Sin | king | well property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Sin not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | Sin | Chang obl | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go in a quote | infinitive | Sin not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | Sin | your master and a fish | your nmod:poss; Sin appos; a fish conj | tree rules | |||
| 6 | take in a quote | infinitive | this awful hook | my mouth | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent hook=Theme out mouth=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | put back in a quote | infinitive | Sin | the water | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme at once=Destination |
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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