The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 21
For some time the judge considered the stories of the three men, then he said to the last one to speak:
Who acts: judge · What happens: consider, say, speak · To what, where: stories, last one · 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), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 considered | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 judge | det |
| 5 | judge | judge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 considered | nsubj |
| 6 | considered | consider | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stories | det |
| 8 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 considered | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 men | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 men | det |
| 11 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 men | nummod |
| 12 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stories | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 said | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 considered | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 one | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 one | det |
| 19 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 one | amod |
| 20 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 speak | mark |
| 22 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 one | acl |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 considered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consider | past | the judge | the stories of the three men | time | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent story=Attribute | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | judge | the last one | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to one=Recipient | |||
| 3 | speak speech: other | to-infinitive | judge not said here | vn talk-37.5 «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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