The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 59
“Father won’t be in time to light them for us, after all,” Han Chung was saying.
Who acts: Father, Han Chung · What happens: not be, light, say · To what, where: lanterns · 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 (Father, Han Chung), 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 | _ | 7 time | punct |
| 2 | Father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 time | nsubj |
| 3 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 time | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 time | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 time | cop |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 light | mark |
| 9 | light | light | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 time | acl |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 light | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 us | case |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 light | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 saying | punct |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 all | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 Chung | det |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 all | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 all | punct |
| 18 | Han | Han | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Chung | compound |
| 19 | Chung | Chung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 saying | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 saying | aux |
| 21 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 light | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | future | Father | in time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | light in a quote | to-infinitive | lanterns = lantern | for us | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent they=Product for we=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past · progressive | all Han Chung | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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