The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 63
And the sister of the Princess said: “The gifts must be as many as the blades of grass in our city.”
Who acts: sister, gifts · What happens: say, be · 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 (sister, gifts), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sister | det |
| 3 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Princess | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Princess | det |
| 6 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sister | nmod |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 many | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 many | punct |
| 10 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 gifts | det |
| 11 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 many | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 many | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 many | cop |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 many | advmod |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | ccomp |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 blades | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 blades | det |
| 18 | blades | blade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 many | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 grass | case |
| 20 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 blades | nmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 city | case |
| 22 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 city | nmod:poss |
| 23 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 blades | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the sister of the Princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | must | the gifts | as the blades of grass in our city; many 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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