The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 85
“I am a good swimmer, and not afraid of fish,” said Pei-Hang.
Who acts: good swimmer · What happens: be, say · To what, where: good swimmer · 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 (good swimmer), 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 | _ | 6 swimmer | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 swimmer | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 swimmer | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 swimmer | det |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 swimmer | amod |
| 6 | swimmer | swimmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 afraid | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 afraid | cc |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 afraid | advmod |
| 10 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 swimmer | amod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 fish | case |
| 12 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 afraid | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 swimmer | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 swimmer | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | Pei | Pei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Hang | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Pei | punct |
| 18 | Hang | Hang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | a good swimmer = swimmer | a good swimmer | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a good swimmer | Pei Hang nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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