The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 15
Looking up, they saw a large bird, which said to them: “You seek your prince in vain.
Who acts: tutor, large bird, You · What happens: look up, see, say, seek · To what, where: large bird, tutor, prince, vain · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tutor, large bird, You), 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 | Looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 saw | advcl |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Looking | compound:prt |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Looking | punct |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bird | det |
| 7 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bird | amod |
| 8 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 bird | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 seek | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 seek | punct |
| 16 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 seek | nsubj |
| 17 | seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 prince | nmod:poss |
| 19 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 seek | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 vain | case |
| 21 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 seek | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look up | gerund | tutor not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | see | past | tutor | a large bird | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | a large bird | tutor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | seek in a quote | present | You | your prince | vain | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent prince=Theme in vain=Location |
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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