The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 22
Whereupon he laughed, saying, “There are seventy of you, counting my little bride yonder, and I am not going to spend my life swinging girls!
Who acts: maiden, seventy · What happens: laugh, say, be, count, not go, spend · To what, where: little bride, life, girls · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (maiden, seventy), 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 | Whereupon | whereupon | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 laughed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 laughed | nsubj |
| 3 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 saying | punct |
| 5 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 laughed | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 are | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 are | punct |
| 8 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 are | expl |
| 9 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 saying | ccomp |
| 10 | seventy | seventy | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 are | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 you | case |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 seventy | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 counting | punct |
| 14 | counting | count | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 saying | conj |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 bride | nmod:poss |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 bride | amod |
| 17 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 counting | obj |
| 18 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 14 counting | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 going | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 going | cc |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 going | nsubj |
| 22 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 going | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 going | advmod |
| 24 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 laughed | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 spend | mark |
| 26 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 going | xcomp |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 life | nmod:poss |
| 28 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 spend | obj |
| 29 | swinging | swing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 spend | advcl |
| 30 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 swinging | obj |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | maiden | whereupon property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | gerund | maiden not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | seventy of you | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | count in a quote | gerund | maiden not said here | my little bride | yonder property | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Theme | |||
| 5 | not go in a quote | present · progressive | maiden | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | spend in a quote | to-infinitive | maiden not said here | my life | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Asset | ||||
| 7 | swing in a quote | gerund | maiden not said here | girls | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme girl=Result |
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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