The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 112
He also ordered that all dogs in the world should join in the search, and ever since when one dog meets another, he says: “Are you the old dog that lost the magic ring?
Who acts: dog, dogs, one dog, you, old dog · What happens: order, join, meet, say, be, lose · To what, where: another, old dog, magic ring · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, dogs, one dog, you), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ordered | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 ordered | advmod |
| 3 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 join | mark |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 dogs | det |
| 6 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 join | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 world | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 world | det |
| 9 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dogs | nmod |
| 10 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 join | aux |
| 11 | join | join | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ordered | xcomp |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 search | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 search | det |
| 14 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 join | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 says | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 says | cc |
| 17 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 18 since | advmod |
| 18 | since | since | ADV | _ | 26 says | advmod |
| 19 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 22 meets | mark |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 dog | nummod |
| 21 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 meets | nsubj |
| 22 | meets | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 says | advcl |
| 23 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 meets | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 meets | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 says | nsubj |
| 26 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ordered | parataxis |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 33 dog | punct |
| 28 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 dog | punct |
| 29 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 dog | cop |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 dog | nsubj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 dog | det |
| 32 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 dog | amod |
| 33 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 says | parataxis |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 lost | nsubj |
| 35 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 dog | acl:relcl |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 ring | det |
| 37 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 ring | amod |
| 38 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 lost | obj |
| 39 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | dog | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | join not said to happen | should | all dogs in the world | in the search | vn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in search=Theme | ||||
| 3 | meet | present | one dog | another | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: ask | present | dog | ever | since property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | you | the old dog | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | lose in a quote | past | the old dog | the magic ring | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Eventuality |
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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