The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 75
So he got the jackals of the jungle together, and said to them: “Good people, the Goddess of the Wood has anointed me king.
Who acts: JACKAL · What happens: get, say, anoint · To what, where: jackals, rejoicings, Goddess · 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 (JACKAL), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 jackals | det |
| 5 | jackals | jackal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 got | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 jungle | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 jungle | det |
| 8 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 jackals | nmod |
| 9 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 got | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 anointed | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 people | punct |
| 17 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 people | amod |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 anointed | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Goddess | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Goddess | det |
| 21 | Goddess | Goddess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 anointed | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Wood | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Wood | det |
| 24 | Wood | Wood | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Goddess | nmod |
| 25 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 anointed | aux |
| 26 | anointed | anoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 said | conj |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 anointed | obj |
| 28 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 anointed | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | JACKAL | the jackals of the jungle | together property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jackal=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | rejoicings = rejoicing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | anoint in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the Goddess of the Wood | Good people obl; me obj; king obj | tree rules |
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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