The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 61
Then a second man spoke: “You must give a great yard with a floor of gold, which must be three feet thick.”
Who acts: second man, You, gold · What happens: speak, give, be · To what, where: great yard · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (second man, You, gold), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 spoke | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spoke | nsubj |
| 5 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
| 8 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 give | nsubj |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 give | aux |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 spoke | ccomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 yard | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 yard | amod |
| 13 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 floor | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 floor | det |
| 16 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 gold | case |
| 18 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 floor | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 thick | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 thick | nsubj |
| 21 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 thick | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 thick | cop |
| 23 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 feet | nummod |
| 24 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 thick | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 gold | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spoke | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | a second man | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give in a quote | must | You | a great yard | with a floor of gold | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yard=Theme | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | must | gold | three feet obl:unmarked; thick property | tree rules |
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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