The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 86
Mobarec sat down on the brink of it, saying to the prince, “We must cross this water.”
Who acts: Mobarec, We · What happens: sit down, say, cross · To what, where: brink, prince, water · 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 (Mobarec, We), 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 | Mobarec | Mobarec | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 sat | compound:prt |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 brink | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 brink | det |
| 6 | brink | brink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 brink | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saying | punct |
| 10 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 sat | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 prince | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 prince | det |
| 13 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saying | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cross | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 cross | punct |
| 16 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 cross | nsubj |
| 17 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 cross | aux |
| 18 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 saying | ccomp |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 water | det |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cross | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 cross | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 cross | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | Mobarec | the brink of brink | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on brink=Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | Mobarec not said here | the prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to prince=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | cross in a quote | must | We | this water | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |
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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