The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 52
“Let us go, my son,” said she, “and see it, for it is certainly in the underground chamber, since the Sultan of the Genii said you should find it there.”
Who acts: us, maiden, account, Sultan, you · What happens: let, go, say, see, be, find · To what, where: us, account · 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 (us, maiden, account, Sultan), 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 | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 son | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 son | nmod:poss |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | vocative |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 see | cc |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 see | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 chamber | punct |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 chamber | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 chamber | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 chamber | cop |
| 21 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 25 chamber | advmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 chamber | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 chamber | det |
| 24 | underground | underground | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 chamber | amod |
| 25 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 see | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 said | punct |
| 27 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 33 said | mark |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Sultan | det |
| 29 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 said | nsubj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Genii | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Genii | det |
| 32 | Genii | Genii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Sultan | nmod |
| 33 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | advcl |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 find | nsubj |
| 35 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 find | aux |
| 36 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 said | ccomp |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 find | obj |
| 38 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 find | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 40 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | my son vocative | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | maiden | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | see in a quote | infinitive | account | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | account | for the underground chamber; certainly property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the Sultan of the Genii | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | find in a quote | should | you | account | there | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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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