The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 108
“First you must cross the Black River,” replied the Geni, with a rather scornful laugh.
Who acts: you, Geni · What happens: cross, reply · To what, where: Black River · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Geni), 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 cross | punct |
| 2 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 cross | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 cross | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 cross | aux |
| 5 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 replied | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 River | det |
| 7 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 River | compound |
| 8 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 cross | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cross | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cross | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Geni | det |
| 13 | Geni | Geni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 laugh | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 laugh | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 laugh | det |
| 17 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 18 scornful | advmod |
| 18 | scornful | scornful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 laugh | amod |
| 19 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Geni | appos |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross in a quote | must | you | the Black River | first property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the Geni | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=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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