The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 96
“A royal hawk art thou, O King, the rest But timid wild-fowl.
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: 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 | _ | 5 art | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hawk | det |
| 3 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hawk | amod |
| 4 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 art | nsubj |
| 5 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 art | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 King | punct |
| 8 | O | O | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 King | compound |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 art | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rest | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 rest | det |
| 12 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 King | nmod |
| 13 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 fowl | cc |
| 14 | timid | timid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fowl | amod |
| 15 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fowl | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 wild | punct |
| 17 | fowl | fowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rest | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 art | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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