The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 81
One of the wise old beasts addressed them, saying: “Leave this impostor to me.
What happens: address, say, leave · To what, where: One, impostor, me · 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: 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 addressed | obl |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 beasts | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 beasts | det |
| 4 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 beasts | amod |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 beasts | amod |
| 6 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 addressed | obl |
| 7 | addressed | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 addressed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saying | punct |
| 10 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 addressed | advcl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 Leave | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Leave | punct |
| 13 | Leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 saying | ccomp |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 impostor | det |
| 15 | impostor | impostor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Leave | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 me | case |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 Leave | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 addressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | address | past | One | of the wise old beasts; beasts = beast obj | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | leave in a quote | infinitive | this impostor | me | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent impostor=Theme to i=Recipient |
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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