The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 75
“Now,” said she, “on this stool I pound magic drugs given to me by the Genii, but my pestle and mortar is broken, and I want a new one.”
Who acts: mother · What happens: say, drug, give, break, want · To what, where: stool, pound magic drugs, mother, pestle, new one · 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 (mother), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 drugs | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 drugs | punct |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 stool | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 stool | det |
| 11 | stool | stool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drugs | obl |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 drugs | nsubj |
| 13 | pound | pound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drugs | compound |
| 14 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drugs | compound |
| 15 | drugs | drug | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 said | parataxis |
| 16 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 drugs | acl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 me | case |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 given | obl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 Genii | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Genii | det |
| 21 | Genii | Genii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 given | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 broken | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 broken | cc |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 pestle | nmod:poss |
| 25 | pestle | pestle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 mortar | cc |
| 27 | mortar | mortar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pestle | conj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 broken | aux:pass |
| 29 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 said | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 want | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 want | cc |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 want | nsubj |
| 33 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 one | det |
| 35 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 one | amod |
| 36 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 want | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 38 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | mother | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | drug in a quote | mother | this stool | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | give in a quote | participle | pound magic drugs not said here | mother | by the Genii | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient | |||
| 4 | break in a quote | present · passive | my pestle and mortar | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 5 | want in a quote | present | mother | a new one | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot one=Theme |
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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