The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 79
“I will do that, but I must see my parents first,” said Pei-Yang.
Who acts: Pei Yang · What happens: do, see, say · To what, where: that, parents · 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 Yang), 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 do | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 do | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 see | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 see | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 see | nsubj |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 see | aux |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 do | conj |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 parents | nmod:poss |
| 12 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 see | obj |
| 13 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 see | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | Pei | Pei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Yang | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Pei | punct |
| 19 | Yang | Yang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | future | Pei Yang = yang | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | must | Pei Yang = yang | my parents | first property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer parent=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Pei Yang | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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