The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 53
But Chang took no more notice of the strange noises the fish made, and thought only of the present he would receive for bringing home such a fine fish.
Who acts: Chang, strange · What happens: take, noise, make, think, receive, bring · To what, where: more notice, fish, present, fine fish
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 (Chang, strange), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 took | cc |
| 2 | Chang | Chang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | ADV | _ | 6 notice | advmod |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 notice | amod |
| 6 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 10 noises | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 strange | det |
| 9 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 noises | nsubj |
| 10 | noises | noise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 notice | acl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fish | det |
| 12 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 noises | obj |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 fish | acl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thought | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 thought | cc |
| 16 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 present | advmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 present | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 present | det |
| 20 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thought | ccomp |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 receive | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 receive | aux |
| 23 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 present | acl:relcl |
| 24 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 bringing | mark |
| 25 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 receive | advcl |
| 26 | home | home | ADV | _ | 25 bringing | advmod |
| 27 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 fish | det:predet |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 fish | det |
| 29 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 fish | amod |
| 30 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bringing | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Chang | more notice | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme | ||||
| 2 | noise | present | the strange | the fish | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | participle | the fish not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | Chang not said here | the present ccomp | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | receive | would | Chang | the present not said here | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=Theme | ||||
| 6 | bring | gerund | Chang not said here | such fine fish | home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument fish=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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