The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 46
“Tell me what you see,” said the Hare, going back to the table where he was pounding the drugs.
Who acts: you, Hare · What happens: tell, see, say, go back, pound · To what, where: me, drugs · 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 (you, Hare), 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 Tell | punct |
| 2 | Tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Tell | iobj |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 see | obj |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 see | nsubj |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Tell | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tell | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tell | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Hare | det |
| 11 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 going | punct |
| 13 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | advcl |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 going | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 table | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 table | det |
| 17 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 going | obl |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 pounding | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 pounding | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 pounding | aux |
| 21 | pounding | pound | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 table | acl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 drugs | det |
| 23 | drugs | drug | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 pounding | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | see in a quote | present | you | what obj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Hare | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | go back | gerund | the Hare not said here | to the table result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to table=Result | ||||
| 5 | pound | past · progressive | Hare | the drugs | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drug=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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