The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Chapter titles have been normalized throughout., sentence 10
Page 95, comma changed to a question mark after ‘Jackal,’ “rascally Jackal?” asked the”
Who acts: Page · What happens: change, ask · To what, where: comma
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Chapter titles have been normalized throughout.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Page), 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 | Page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | 95 | 95 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Page | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 comma | punct |
| 4 | comma | comma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Page | conj |
| 5 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 comma | acl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 mark | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 mark | det |
| 8 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mark | compound |
| 9 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 changed | obl |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 Jackal | case |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Jackal | punct |
| 12 | Jackal | Jackal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 changed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Page | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Page | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Jackal | punct |
| 16 | rascally | rascally | ADV | _ | 17 Jackal | advmod |
| 17 | Jackal | Jackal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Page | appos |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 Jackal | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Jackal | punct |
| 20 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 ” | det |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | participle | comma not said here | after Jackal | to a question mark result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Agent to mark=Result | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Page and comma | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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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