The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 71
“He is old and wrinkled, like a little brown monkey,” said Yun-Ying, “and I don’t want to marry him.
Who acts: Yun · What happens: be, wrinkle, say, not want, marry · To what, where: Yun · 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 (Yun), 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 old | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 old | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 old | cop |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 said | ccomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 wrinkled | cc |
| 6 | wrinkled | wrinkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 old | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 monkey | punct |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 monkey | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 monkey | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 monkey | amod |
| 11 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 monkey | amod |
| 12 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wrinkled | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 old | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 old | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | Yun | Yun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Ying | punct |
| 18 | Ying | Ying | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Yun | nmod:unmarked |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 want | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 want | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 want | cc |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 want | nsubj |
| 23 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 want | aux |
| 24 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 want | advmod |
| 25 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 marry | mark |
| 27 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 want | xcomp |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 marry | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Yun | old property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wrinkle in a quote | participle | Yun not said here | like a little brown monkey | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Yun Ying | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not want in a quote | present · do-support | Yun Ying = yun | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | marry not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Yun Ying = yun not said here | Yun | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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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