The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 27, sentence 36
Then one of them said, “We have been told of your power, but to know whether or not you are worthy to fight with us, let us see you pierce seven plates of iron with your arrow.”
Who acts: one, you, us · What happens: say, tell, know, be, fight, let · To what, where: We, us, seven plates · 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 (one, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 one | nmod |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 told | punct |
| 8 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 told | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 told | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 told | aux:pass |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 said | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 power | case |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 power | nmod:poss |
| 14 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 told | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 know | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 know | cc |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 know | mark |
| 18 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 19 | whether | whether | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 24 worthy | mark |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 whether | fixed |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 whether | fixed |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 worthy | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 worthy | cop |
| 24 | worthy | worthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 know | ccomp |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 fight | mark |
| 26 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 worthy | xcomp |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 us | case |
| 28 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 fight | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 let | punct |
| 30 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 know | conj |
| 31 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 let | obj |
| 32 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 let | xcomp |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 pierce | nsubj |
| 34 | pierce | pierce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 see | ccomp |
| 35 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 plates | nummod |
| 36 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 pierce | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 iron | case |
| 38 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 plates | nmod |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 arrow | case |
| 40 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 arrow | nmod:poss |
| 41 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 iron | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 know | punct |
| 43 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | one of GIANTS | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present · perfect · passive | We | of your power | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | know in a quote | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | you | worthy property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | fight in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | with us | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with we=Co-Agent | ||||
| 6 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | see in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 8 | pierce in a quote | present | you | seven plates of iron with your arrow | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plate=Patient |
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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