The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 5
Even human beings refer to me as the slyest of the sly.”
Who acts: human beings · What happens: refer · To what, where: me
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 (human beings), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 3 beings | advmod |
| 2 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 beings | amod |
| 3 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 refer | nsubj |
| 4 | refer | refer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 refer | obl |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 slyest | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 slyest | det |
| 9 | slyest | slyest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 refer | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 sly | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sly | det |
| 12 | sly | sly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 slyest | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 refer | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 refer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refer | present | human beings | me | as the slyest of the sly | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to i=Co-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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