The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 61
“Oh!” cried Pei-Hang, “I thought that I might never see you again, and I have found you already.”
Who acts: Pei · What happens: cry, think, not see, find · To what, where: you · 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 (Pei), 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 cried | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 cried | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Pei | Pei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | obj |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Hang | punct |
| 8 | Hang | Hang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Pei | nmod:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 thought | nsubj |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cried | conj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 see | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 see | nsubj |
| 15 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 see | aux |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 see | advmod |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 thought | ccomp |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 see | obj |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 see | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 found | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 found | cc |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 found | nsubj |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 found | aux |
| 24 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 cried | conj |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 found | obj |
| 26 | already | already | ADV | _ | 24 found | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Pei Hang | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | past | Pei Hang = pei | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not see in a quote | might | Pei Hang = pei | you | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | find in a quote | present · perfect | Pei Hang = pei | you | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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