The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 82
The lions and tigers and the rest think he is a king because he is colored blue, but we must show them his true colors.
Who acts: lions, JACKAL, we · What happens: think, be, color, show · To what, where: king, JACKAL, lions · 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 (lions, JACKAL, we), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lions | det |
| 2 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 think | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 tigers | cc |
| 4 | tigers | tiger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lions | conj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 rest | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rest | det |
| 7 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lions | conj |
| 8 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 king | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 king | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 think | ccomp |
| 13 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 16 colored | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 colored | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 colored | aux:pass |
| 16 | colored | color | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 think | advcl |
| 17 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 colored | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 show | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 show | cc |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 show | nsubj |
| 21 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 show | aux |
| 22 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 think | parataxis |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 show | obj |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 colors | nmod:poss |
| 25 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 colors | amod |
| 26 | colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 show | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | the lions and tigers and the rest | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | JACKAL | a king | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | color | present · passive | JACKAL | blue property | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | show | must | we | lions = lion | JACKAL's true colors obj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient color=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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