The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Chapter titles have been normalized throughout., sentence 8
Page 95, closing single quote changed to closing double quote after ‘hold,’ “will hold,’ said he”
Who acts: closing single quote, Page · What happens: close, change, hold, say · To what, where: double quote · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (closing single quote, 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 | 22 said | nsubj |
| 2 | 95 | 95 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Page | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 quote | punct |
| 4 | closing | close | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 quote | amod |
| 5 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 quote | amod |
| 6 | quote | quote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Page | conj |
| 7 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 quote | acl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 closing | case |
| 9 | closing | closing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 changed | obl |
| 10 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 quote | amod |
| 11 | quote | quote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 changed | obl |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 hold | case |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 hold | punct |
| 14 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 changed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Page | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Page | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 hold | punct |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 hold | aux |
| 19 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Page | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hold | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 hold | punct |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 ” | nsubj |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | gerund | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | change | participle | closing single quote not said here | double quote | after hold | to closing result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Agent to closing=Result | ||
| 3 | hold in a quote | future | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Page and closing single quote | page nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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