The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 75
“You would not believe what I told you,” said the boy; “and now I am going to let the storm continue.”
Who acts: You, boy, storm · What happens: not believe, tell, say, go, let, continue · To what, where: you, storm · 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 (You, boy, storm), 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 believe | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 believe | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 believe | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 believe | advmod |
| 5 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 told | obj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 told | nsubj |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 believe | ccomp |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 told | iobj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 believe | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 believe | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 boy | det |
| 14 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 going | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 going | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 going | cc |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 going | advmod |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 going | nsubj |
| 20 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 going | aux |
| 21 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 said | ccomp |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 let | mark |
| 23 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 going | xcomp |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 storm | det |
| 25 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 let | obj |
| 26 | continue | continue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 let | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 going | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not believe in a quote | would | You | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | past | the boy = boy | you | what obj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient what=Topic | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the boy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | go in a quote | present · progressive | the boy = boy | now | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | let in a quote | to-infinitive | the boy = boy not said here | the storm | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | continue in a quote | infinitive | the storm not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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