The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 96
“Our beards have not grown quickly, young man.
What happens: not grow · To what, where: beards
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: 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 grown | punct |
| 2 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 beards | nmod:poss |
| 3 | beards | beard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 grown | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 grown | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 grown | advmod |
| 6 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 6 grown | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 man | punct |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grown | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 grown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not grow in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Our beards | young man obl; quickly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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