The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 54
“I must go and see where the voices come from!” he said; and when his nurses told him he must not go for one year more, he only laughed aloud, saying, “Nay!
Who acts: child, voices, nurses · What happens: go, see, come, say, tell, not go · To what, where: child, more · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, voices, nurses), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 see | cc |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | conj |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 come | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 voices | det |
| 9 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 come | nsubj |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | ccomp |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 come | obl |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 laughed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 laughed | cc |
| 18 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 21 told | mark |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 nurses | nmod:poss |
| 20 | nurses | nurse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 told | nsubj |
| 21 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 laughed | advcl |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 told | iobj |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 go | nsubj |
| 24 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 go | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 go | advmod |
| 26 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 told | ccomp |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 year | case |
| 28 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 year | nummod |
| 29 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 go | obl |
| 30 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 go | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 told | punct |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 laughed | nsubj |
| 33 | only | only | ADV | _ | 34 laughed | advmod |
| 34 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | conj |
| 35 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 34 laughed | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 saying | punct |
| 37 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 laughed | advcl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 Nay | punct |
| 39 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 Nay | punct |
| 40 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 37 saying | discourse |
| 41 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | must | child | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see in a quote | infinitive | child not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | come in a quote | present | the voices | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | say speech: express | past | child | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past | child's nurses | child | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | not go | must | child | more | year | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location more=Theme | |||
| 7 | laugh | past | child | aloud property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | say speech: assert | gerund | child not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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