The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 83
“Oh!” exclaimed Sin, “what an awful knock I have given myself.
Who acts: Sin · What happens: exclaim, give · To what, where: Sin · 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 (Sin), 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 | _ | 5 exclaimed | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 exclaimed | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 5 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Sin | Sin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 exclaimed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 given | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 given | punct |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 given | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 knock | det |
| 11 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 knock | amod |
| 12 | knock | knock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 given | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 given | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 given | aux |
| 15 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 exclaimed | advcl |
| 16 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 given | iobj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | Sin | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | give in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Sin | what nsubj:pass; a awful knock nsubj:pass; I nsubj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient myself=Theme |
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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