The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 39
“I will rest at the Indigo Bridge,” said he to himself, “and walk on again in the cool of the evening.”
Who acts: sun · What happens: rest, say, walk on · To what, where: Indigo Bridge, sun, cool · 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 (sun), 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 | _ | 4 rest | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 rest | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 rest | aux |
| 4 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 Bridge | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Bridge | det |
| 7 | Indigo | Indigo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Bridge | compound |
| 8 | Bridge | Bridge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 rest | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 rest | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 rest | 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 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 himself | case |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 said | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 walk | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 walk | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 walk | cc |
| 18 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 19 | on | on | ADV | _ | 18 walk | advmod |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 walk | advmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 cool | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 cool | det |
| 23 | cool | cool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 walk | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 evening | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 evening | det |
| 26 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cool | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 walk | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 walk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest in a quote | future | sun | the Indigo Bridge | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent at bridge=Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | sun | sun | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | walk on in a quote | infinitive | the cool of the evening | again | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cool=Trajectory |
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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