The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 76
The younger, whose name was Fukan, answered:
Who acts: name, younger Fukan · What happens: be, answer, name · To what, where: younger Fukan
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 (name, younger Fukan), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Fukan | det |
| 2 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 Fukan | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Fukan | punct |
| 4 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 5 name | nmod:poss |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Fukan | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Fukan | cop |
| 7 | Fukan | Fukan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Fukan | punct |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the younger Fukan's name | the younger Fukan | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the younger Fukan | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | name | the younger Fukan | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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