The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 71
“If I give you the statue now,” said he, “there will come dreadful storms, rain, and darkness.”
Who acts: father · What happens: give, say, come · To what, where: statue, you, dreadful storms · 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 (father), 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 | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 give | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 give | nsubj |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | advcl |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 statue | det |
| 7 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 give | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 come | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 come | punct |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 come | expl |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 come | aux |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 18 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 storms | amod |
| 19 | storms | storm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 come | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 rain | punct |
| 21 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 storms | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 darkness | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 darkness | cc |
| 24 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 come | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 come | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | father | the statue | you | now | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient statue=Theme | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come in a quote | future | dreadful storms and rain | there | darkness obl | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location storm=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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