The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 87
So the Rajpoot merely said: “It was a woman weeping, your Highness, and she disappeared on my approach.”
Who acts: Rajpoot, bearing, my · What happens: say, be, disappear, approach · To what, where: woman weeping, approach · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rajpoot, bearing, my), 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 | _ | 5 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Rajpoot | det |
| 3 | Rajpoot | Rajpoot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 4 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 5 said | advmod |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 weeping | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 weeping | punct |
| 8 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 weeping | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 weeping | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 weeping | det |
| 11 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 weeping | compound |
| 12 | weeping | weeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Highness | punct |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 Highness | nmod:poss |
| 15 | Highness | highness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 weeping | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 disappeared | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 disappeared | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 disappeared | nsubj |
| 19 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 approach | case |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 approach | nmod:poss |
| 22 | approach | approach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 disappeared | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Rajpoot | merely property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | bearing | a woman weeping and your Highness | your Highness conj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | disappear in a quote | past | RAJPOOT | my approach | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | approach in a quote | my | nom approach «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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