The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 43
“What does the red cord around your own foot mean?” replied the girl.
Who acts: red cord, girl · What happens: do, mean, reply · To what, where: red cord · 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 (red cord, girl), 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 | _ | 3 does | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 does | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 replied | ccomp |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cord | det |
| 5 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cord | amod |
| 6 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 does | obj |
| 7 | around | around | ADP | _ | 10 foot | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 foot | nmod:poss |
| 9 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 foot | amod |
| 10 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mean | compound |
| 11 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 cord | acl:relcl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 does | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 does | punct |
| 14 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 girl | det |
| 16 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 replied | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present | the red cord | What nsubj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cord=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | mean in a quote | infinitive | the red cord not said here | your own foot compound | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: ask | past | the girl | 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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