The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 129
“Come, let us go to the mountain to consult the omen concerning the northern tribes.”
Who acts: you, us, omen · What happens: come, let, go, consult, concern · To what, where: us, mountain, omen, northern tribes
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 (you, us, omen), 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 | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 2 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Come | conj |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 let | obj |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 let | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 mountain | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mountain | det |
| 9 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 consult | mark |
| 11 | consult | consult | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 go | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 omen | det |
| 13 | omen | omen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 consult | obj |
| 14 | concerning | concern | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 omen | acl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tribes | det |
| 16 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tribes | amod |
| 17 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 concerning | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | the mountain | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mountain=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | consult in a quote | to-infinitive | us not said here | the omen | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent omen=Theme | ||||
| 5 | concern in a quote | gerund | the omen not said here | the northern tribes | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tribe=Experiencer |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/23/129/