The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 27, sentence 22
Rasalu said, “You are a pretty fakir to try to outwit me or any one.”
Who acts: Rasalu, You · What happens: say, be, try, outwit · To what, where: pretty fakir, Rasalu · 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 (Rasalu, You), 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 | Rasalu | Rasalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 fakir | punct |
| 5 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 fakir | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 fakir | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fakir | det |
| 8 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fakir | amod |
| 9 | fakir | fakir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 try | mark |
| 11 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 fakir | acl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 outwit | mark |
| 13 | outwit | outwit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 try | xcomp |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 outwit | obj |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 one | cc |
| 16 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 one | det |
| 17 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fakir | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 fakir | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 fakir | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Rasalu | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | You | a pretty fakir or any one | any one conj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | try in a quote | to-infinitive | Rasalu not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | outwit not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Rasalu not said here | Rasalu | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot i=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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