The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 37
“Oh, my good friend,” exclaimed the Counsellor, “the beasts are gone, now draw me up quickly, I beseech you.”
Who acts: good friend, beasts · What happens: exclaim, be, draw up, beseech · To what, where: Counsellor, good friend, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good friend, beasts), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 exclaimed | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 friend | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 friend | nmod:poss |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 friend | amod |
| 6 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 friend | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 friend | punct |
| 9 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Counsellor | det |
| 11 | Counsellor | counsellor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 exclaimed | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gone | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 gone | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 beasts | det |
| 15 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 gone | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 gone | cop |
| 17 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 draw | punct |
| 19 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 draw | advmod |
| 20 | draw | draw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 gone | parataxis |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 draw | obj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 draw | compound:prt |
| 23 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 20 draw | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 beseech | punct |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 beseech | nsubj |
| 26 | beseech | beseech | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 draw | conj |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 beseech | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 exclaimed | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | my good friend | the Counsellor | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the beasts | gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | draw up in a quote | infinitive | my good friend = friend | now | quickly property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 4 | beseech in a quote | present | my good friend = friend | you | 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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