The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 2
“Why, are we not at Grand Cairo?” said Mobarec.
Who acts: we, Grand Cairo · What happens: not be, say · To what, where: Grand Cairo · 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 (we, Grand Cairo), 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 | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 Cairo | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Cairo | cop |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 Cairo | nsubj |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 Cairo | advmod |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 Cairo | case |
| 8 | Grand | Grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Cairo | amod |
| 9 | Cairo | Cairo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 Cairo | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Cairo | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Mobarec | Mobarec | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | we | Grand Cairo | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Grand Cairo | Mobarec nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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