The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 54
You know where that statue is, for it is mentioned on the satin that you will conduct me to it.”
Who acts: You, statue, satin · What happens: know, be, mention, conduct · To what, where: eight, satin, me · 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 (You, statue, satin), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 2 know | ccomp |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 statue | det |
| 5 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 where | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 where | cop |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mentioned | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 mentioned | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 mentioned | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 mentioned | aux:pass |
| 11 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 know | conj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 satin | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 satin | det |
| 14 | satin | satin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mentioned | obl |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 conduct | nsubj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 conduct | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 conduct | aux |
| 18 | conduct | conduct | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 satin | acl:relcl |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 conduct | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 conduct | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | present | that statue | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | mention speech: other | present · passive | eight | the satin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 4 | conduct | future | the satin | me | eight | you nsubj | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to it=Destination |
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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