The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 54
“Oh, it is only a stick, but if I say, ‘Boombye, Boomba,’ it will beat you to death.”
Who acts: trip, JUAN · What happens: be, say, beat · To what, where: stick, Boombye, you, death · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trip, JUAN), 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 | _ | 8 stick | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 8 stick | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 stick | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 stick | cop |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 stick | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 stick | det |
| 8 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 beat | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 beat | cc |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 say | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 say | nsubj |
| 13 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 beat | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Boombye | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 Boombye | punct |
| 16 | Boombye | Boombye | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 say | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Boomba | punct |
| 18 | Boomba | Boomba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Boombye | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 beat | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | SCONJ | _ | 23 beat | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 beat | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 beat | aux |
| 23 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 stick | parataxis |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 beat | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 death | case |
| 26 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 beat | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stick | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 stick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | trip | a stick | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | JUAN | Boombye and Boomba | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent boombye=Topic | ||||
| 3 | beat in a quote | future | trip | you | death | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Patient to death=Recipient |
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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