The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 64
Chang took the fish straight to Mr. Le, and said: “Your Excellency, here is the finest carp I have ever seen.”
Who acts: Chang, Excellency · What happens: take, say, be, see · To what, where: fish, Le, finest carp · 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 (Chang, Excellency), 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 | Chang | chang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fish | det |
| 4 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 8 Le | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Le | case |
| 7 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Le | nmod:desc |
| 8 | Le | Le | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 Excellency | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Excellency | punct |
| 14 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 Excellency | nmod:poss |
| 15 | Excellency | excellency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 carp | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 here | punct |
| 17 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 Excellency | advmod |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 carp | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 carp | det |
| 20 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 carp | amod |
| 21 | carp | carp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | ccomp |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 seen | nsubj |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 seen | aux |
| 24 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 25 seen | advmod |
| 25 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 carp | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 carp | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 carp | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Chang | the fish | Le Mr. | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fish=Theme to le=Destination | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Chang not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | Your Excellency | the finest carp | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see in a quote | present · perfect | Chang | the finest carp not said here | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer carp=Stimulus |
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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