The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 76
“This is a noisy carp you have caught, Chang,” said the cook, “but he won’t grunt much longer.
Who acts: This, noisy carp, cook · What happens: be, catch, say, not grunt · To what, where: noisy carp, you · 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, noisy carp, cook), 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 | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 carp | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 carp | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 carp | det |
| 5 | noisy | noisy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 carp | amod |
| 6 | carp | carp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 caught | aux |
| 9 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 carp | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Chang | punct |
| 11 | Chang | Chang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 carp | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Chang | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Chang | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cook | det |
| 16 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 grunt | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 grunt | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 grunt | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 grunt | nsubj |
| 21 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 grunt | aux |
| 22 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 grunt | advmod |
| 23 | grunt | grunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | conj |
| 24 | much | much | ADV | _ | 25 longer | advmod |
| 25 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 grunt | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | This | a noisy carp | Chang appos | tree rules | |||
| 2 | catch in a quote | present · perfect · passive | a noisy carp not said here | you | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the cook | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not grunt in a quote | future | cook | long property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: 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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