The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 76
The next day she pretended to be very ill indeed, and told the rajah that she was at the point of death.
Who acts: stepmother · What happens: pretend, be, tell · To what, where: rajah, point · 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 (stepmother), 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 | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pretended | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 pretended | nsubj |
| 5 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 ill | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 ill | cop |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 ill | advmod |
| 9 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pretended | advcl |
| 10 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 9 ill | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 told | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 told | cc |
| 13 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pretended | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 rajah | det |
| 15 | rajah | rajah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 told | iobj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 point | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 point | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 point | cop |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 point | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 point | det |
| 21 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 told | ccomp |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 death | case |
| 23 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 point | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pretended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | past | stepmother | day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | stepmother not said here | ill, indeed property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | stepmother not said here | the rajah | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rajah=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | stepmother | the point | of death | 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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