The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 27, sentence 18
So he challenged the tiger, and said, “You are indeed a mighty full-grown tiger, but I am a Rájput, therefore let us fight.”
Who acts: fool, You, us · What happens: challenge, say, grow, be, let, fight · To what, where: tiger, mighty full grown tiger, Rájput, us · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (fool, You, us), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 challenged | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 challenged | nsubj |
| 3 | challenged | challenge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tiger | det |
| 5 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 challenged | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 challenged | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tiger | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 tiger | punct |
| 11 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 tiger | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 tiger | cop |
| 13 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 19 tiger | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 tiger | det |
| 15 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 tiger | amod |
| 16 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 tiger | amod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 full | punct |
| 18 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 tiger | amod |
| 19 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Rájput | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 Rájput | cc |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 Rájput | nsubj |
| 23 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 Rájput | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 Rájput | det |
| 25 | Rájput | Rájput | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 challenged | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 let | punct |
| 27 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 28 let | advmod |
| 28 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 challenged | ccomp |
| 29 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 let | obj |
| 30 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 let | xcomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 let | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | challenge | past | fool | the tiger | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | fool not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | grow in a quote | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | You | a mighty full grown tiger | indeed property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | fool | a Rájput | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | let in a quote | infinitive | fool not said here | us | therefore property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | fight in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: 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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