The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 114
He told the people that they were each to catch one, and for his brother-in-law he selected the largest and best.
Who acts: deer, people · What happens: tell, catch, select · To what, where: people, one, largest · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deer, people), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 people | det |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 told | iobj |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 catch | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 catch | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 each | cop |
| 8 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 they | appos |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 catch | mark |
| 10 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 told | advcl |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 catch | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 selected | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 selected | cc |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 law | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 brother | nmod:poss |
| 16 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 law | nsubj |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 law | punct |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 law | case |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 in | punct |
| 20 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 selected | obl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 selected | nsubj |
| 22 | selected | select | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 told | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 largest | det |
| 24 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 selected | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 best | cc |
| 26 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 24 largest | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | deer | the people | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | catch | to-infinitive | people | one | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 3 | select | past | deer | the largest | for law deer's brother | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent large=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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