The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 32
“No, you must go by the Indigo Bridge,” said Pin-Too, “for there you will meet your future wife.”
Who acts: you, Pin · What happens: go, say, meet · To what, where: future wife · 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, Pin), 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 | _ | 6 go | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 go | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 go | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 go | aux |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 Bridge | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Bridge | det |
| 9 | Indigo | Indigo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Bridge | compound |
| 10 | Bridge | Bridge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Pin | Pin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Pin | punct |
| 16 | Too | too | ADV | _ | 13 said | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 meet | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 meet | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 there | case |
| 20 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 meet | obl |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 meet | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 meet | aux |
| 23 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | parataxis |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 wife | nmod:poss |
| 25 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 wife | compound |
| 26 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 meet | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 meet | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 meet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | must | you | by the Indigo Bridge | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by bridge=Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Pin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | meet in a quote | future | you | your future wife | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Co-Agent |
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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