The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 41
But the others said: “The poor woman is doing us no harm, so let her take a little wood and fire.”
Who acts: others, poor woman, woman · What happens: say, do, let, take · To what, where: us, woman, little wood · 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 (others, poor woman, woman), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 others | det |
| 3 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 doing | punct |
| 7 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 woman | det |
| 8 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 woman | amod |
| 9 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 doing | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 doing | aux |
| 11 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 said | advcl |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 doing | obj |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 harm | det |
| 14 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 doing | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 let | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 let | advmod |
| 17 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 let | obj |
| 19 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 let | xcomp |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 wood | det |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 wood | amod |
| 22 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 take | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 fire | cc |
| 24 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wood | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 let | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the others | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | present · progressive | the poor woman | us | no harm obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | woman | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | take in a quote | infinitive | woman not said here | a little wood and fire | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme |
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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