The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 112
“I cannot see Bantugan or the fleet anywhere, so let us go and claim the Princess.”
Who acts: Spanish general, us · What happens: not see, let, go, claim · To what, where: Bantugan, us, Princess
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Spanish general, us), 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 see | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 see | advmod |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | Bantugan | Bantugan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 see | obj |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 fleet | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fleet | det |
| 9 | fleet | fleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Bantugan | appos |
| 10 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 fleet | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 let | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 let | advmod |
| 13 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | conj |
| 14 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 let | obj |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 let | xcomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 claim | cc |
| 17 | claim | claim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 go | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Princess | det |
| 19 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 claim | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see in a quote | can | the Spanish general = general | Bantugan | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bantugan=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | the Spanish general = general not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | claim speech: other in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | the Princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent princess=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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