The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 12
The judge then turned to the merchant of Bagdad and said: “And you, my friend; why did you acknowledge yourself to be the murderer?”
Who acts: judge, you · What happens: turn, say, acknowledge, be · To what, where: yourself, murderer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (judge, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 judge | det |
| 2 | judge | judge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 turned | advmod |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 merchant | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 merchant | det |
| 7 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Bagdad | case |
| 9 | Bagdad | Bagdad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 merchant | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 turned | conj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 you | punct |
| 14 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 you | cc |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 said | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 friend | punct |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 friend | nmod:poss |
| 18 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 you | conj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 acknowledge | punct |
| 20 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 acknowledge | advmod |
| 21 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 acknowledge | aux |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 acknowledge | nsubj |
| 23 | acknowledge | acknowledge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 turned | parataxis |
| 24 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 acknowledge | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 murderer | mark |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 murderer | cop |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 murderer | det |
| 28 | murderer | murderer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 acknowledge | obl |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 28 murderer | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 acknowledge | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the judge | then | to the merchant of Bagdad | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the judge not said here | you ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | acknowledge in a quote | past · do-support | you | yourself | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | to-infinitive | the murderer | tree rules |
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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