The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 94
“Are these all of your chickens?” asked Lumawig; and the father assured him that they were all.
Who acts: father, chickens · What happens: ask, assure, be · To what, where: all, Lumawig
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, chickens), 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 | _ | 4 all | punct |
| 2 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 all | cop |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 all | det |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 asked | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 chickens | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 chickens | nmod:poss |
| 7 | chickens | chicken | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 asked | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 chickens | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 chickens | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Lumawig | Lumawig | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | iobj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 assured | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 assured | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 father | det |
| 15 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 assured | nsubj |
| 16 | assured | assure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 asked | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 assured | iobj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 were | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 were | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 assured | advcl |
| 21 | all | all | ADV | _ | 20 were | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | all | Lumawig | of your chickens | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lumawig=Recipient | |||
| 2 | assure | past | the father | LUMAWIG | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | be | past | chickens = chicken | all property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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