The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 27, sentence 12
I have heard that his own power is very great, so I will first put him to the test.”
Who acts: I, own power · What happens: hear, be, put · To what, where: FAKIR
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, own power), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | aux |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 great | mark |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 power | nmod:poss |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 power | amod |
| 7 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 great | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 great | cop |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 great | advmod |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 heard | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 put | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 put | advmod |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 put | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 put | aux |
| 15 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 put | advmod |
| 16 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 heard | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 put | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 test | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 test | det |
| 20 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 put | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present · perfect | I | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | present | FAKIR's own power | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | put | future | I | FAKIR | to the test; first property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal |
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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