The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 8
“Well,” he said, “here is a tortoise, and that is better than nothing, and it will make a very good meal.”
Who acts: hunter, that, tortoise · What happens: say, be, make · To what, where: tortoise, good meal · 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 (hunter, that, tortoise), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tortoise | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 tortoise | punct |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 tortoise | advmod |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 tortoise | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tortoise | det |
| 12 | tortoise | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 better | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 better | cc |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 better | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 better | cop |
| 17 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 tortoise | conj |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 nothing | case |
| 19 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 17 better | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 make | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 make | cc |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 make | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 make | aux |
| 24 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 meal | det |
| 26 | very | very | ADV | _ | 27 good | advmod |
| 27 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 meal | amod |
| 28 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 make | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 make | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | hunter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | a tortoise | here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | that | than nothing; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make in a quote | future | tortoise | a good meal | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material meal=Product |
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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