The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 53
“Nine pedestals of massive gold,” answered the prince, “on eight whereof are as many diamond statues, and on the ninth a piece of white satin, on which my father has written what I am to do to procure another statue, more valuable than all those together.
Who acts: Nine pedestals, eight · What happens: answer, be, write, do, procure · To what, where: prince, many diamond statues, father, piece, statue · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nine pedestals, eight), 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 | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 2 | Nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 pedestals | nummod |
| 3 | pedestals | pedestal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 gold | case |
| 5 | massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 gold | amod |
| 6 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pedestals | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 pedestals | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 pedestals | punct |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 prince | det |
| 11 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 statues | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 statues | punct |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 eight | case |
| 15 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 statues | nsubj |
| 16 | whereof | whereof | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 eight | advmod |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 statues | cop |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | _ | 19 many | advmod |
| 19 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 statues | amod |
| 20 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 statues | compound |
| 21 | statues | statue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 answered | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 ninth | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 ninth | cc |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 ninth | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 ninth | det |
| 26 | ninth | ninth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | parataxis |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 piece | det |
| 28 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ninth | appos |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 satin | case |
| 30 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 satin | amod |
| 31 | satin | satin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 piece | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 written | punct |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 which | case |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 written | obl |
| 35 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 father | nmod:poss |
| 36 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 written | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 written | aux |
| 38 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 piece | acl |
| 39 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 43 do | obj |
| 40 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 43 do | nsubj |
| 41 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 do | aux |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 do | mark |
| 43 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 written | parataxis |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 procure | mark |
| 45 | procure | procure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 do | xcomp |
| 46 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 47 statue | det |
| 47 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 procure | obj |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 valuable | punct |
| 49 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 50 valuable | advmod |
| 50 | valuable | valuable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 do | conj |
| 51 | than | than | ADP | _ | 53 those | case |
| 52 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 53 those | det:predet |
| 53 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 50 valuable | obl |
| 54 | together | together | ADV | _ | 53 those | advmod |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Nine pedestals of massive gold | the prince | the ninth parataxis | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | eight | many diamond statues | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | write in a quote | present · perfect · passive | my father | a piece of white satin | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on which=Destination | ||||
| 4 | do in a quote | present | Nine pedestals of massive gold = pedestal | what obj | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | procure in a quote | to-infinitive | Nine pedestals of massive gold = pedestal not said here | another statue | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent statue=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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