The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Chapter titles have been normalized throughout., sentence 23
Page 209, redundant full stop struck after ‘fish,’ “replied the fish.”
What happens: strike, reply · To what, where: redundant full stop, fish
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: 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 | 14 replied | compound |
| 2 | 209 | 209 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Page | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 stop | punct |
| 4 | redundant | redundant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stop | amod |
| 5 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stop | amod |
| 6 | stop | stop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Page | conj |
| 7 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 stop | acl |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 fish | case |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 fish | punct |
| 10 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 struck | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Page | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Page | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 replied | punct |
| 14 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fish | det |
| 16 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 replied | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 replied | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | participle | redundant full stop not said here | after fish | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert in a quote | past | the fish | Page and redundant full stop compound | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fish=Topic |
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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