The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 110
There are three of us here, a weasel, a crow, and myself, who are great friends.
Who acts: three, weasel · What happens: be · To what, where: great friends
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three, weasel), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 are | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 us | case |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 three | nmod |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 are | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 weasel | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 weasel | det |
| 9 | weasel | weasel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 are | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 crow | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 crow | det |
| 12 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 weasel | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 myself | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 myself | cc |
| 15 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 weasel | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 friends | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 friends | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 friends | cop |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 friends | amod |
| 20 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 weasel | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | three of us | here; there | a weasel myself and a crow and great friends parataxis | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | present | a weasel myself and a crow and great friends | great friends | tree rules |
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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