The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 60

“This is a queer fish that you have got hold of, Chang,” said the porter; “I never heard one make a noise like this before.

Who acts: This, you, porter, one · What happens: be, get, say, not hear, make, hold · To what, where: queer fish, noise, Chang · 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 (This, you, porter, one), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 fish	punct
2	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 fish	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fish	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fish	det
5	queer	queer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fish	amod
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	nsubj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 got	obl
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 got	nsubj
9	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 got	aux
10	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 fish	acl:relcl
11	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 got	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 Chang	case
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Chang	punct
14	Chang	Chang	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 hold	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 got	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 got	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 porter	det
19	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 heard	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 heard	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 heard	nsubj
23	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	24 heard	advmod
24	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 said	conj
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 make	nsubj
26	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 heard	ccomp
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 noise	det
28	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 make	obj
29	like	like	ADP	_	30 this	case
30	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 make	obl
31	before	before	ADV	_	26 make	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	This	a queer fish		tree rules
2	get in a quote	present · perfect	you	a queer fish	hold of Chang obj	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	the porter			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	not hear in a quote	past	the porter = porter			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	make in a quote	infinitive	one	a noise	like this; before property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product
6	hold in a quote			Chang		nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 60

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 60