The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 18
“The crane will take you wherever you like,” said the old men.
Who acts: crane, you, old men · What happens: take, like, say · To what, where: you · 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 (crane, you, old men), 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 | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 crane | det |
| 3 | crane | crane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 take | aux |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 take | obj |
| 7 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 like | advmod |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 like | nsubj |
| 9 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 take | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 like | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 men | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 men | amod |
| 15 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 said | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | future | the crane | you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination | ||||
| 2 | like in a quote | present | you | wherever property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the old men | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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