The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 56
As soon as they reached the gate the porter congratulated Chang on the fine fish he had caught, and said that Mr. Le had just sent to know whether he had brought in anything.
Who acts: efforts, porter, fine fish, Le · What happens: reach, congratulate, catch, say, send, know · To what, where: gate, Chang, porter, Le, anything · 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 (efforts, porter, fine fish, Le), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 reached | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 reached | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 reached | nsubj |
| 5 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gate | det |
| 7 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reached | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 porter | det |
| 9 | porter | porter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 congratulated | nsubj |
| 10 | congratulated | congratulate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 reached | conj |
| 11 | Chang | Chang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 congratulated | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 fish | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fish | det |
| 14 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fish | amod |
| 15 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 congratulated | obl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 caught | aux |
| 18 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 fish | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 said | cc |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 reached | conj |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 sent | mark |
| 23 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Le | nmod:desc |
| 24 | Le | Le | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 sent | aux |
| 26 | just | just | ADV | _ | 27 sent | advmod |
| 27 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 said | ccomp |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 know | mark |
| 29 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 sent | xcomp |
| 30 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 33 brought | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 brought | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 brought | aux |
| 33 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 know | ccomp |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 anything | case |
| 35 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 33 brought | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | efforts = effort | the gate | soon property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent gate=Theme | |||
| 2 | congratulate | past | the porter | Chang | on the fine fish | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chang=Theme | |||
| 3 | catch | past · perfect · passive | the fine fish not said here | porter | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | efforts = effort not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | send | past · perfect · passive | Le Mr. | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | know | to-infinitive | Le Mr. not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | bring | past · perfect | porter | anything | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: 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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