The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 64
Full of admiration, the Emperor exclaimed: “Tell me where you procured this beautiful stone.”
Who acts: Full admiration, you · What happens: exclaim, tell, procure · To what, where: Full admiration, beautiful stone · 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 (Full admiration, you), 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 | Full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 admiration | amod |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 admiration | case |
| 3 | admiration | admiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 admiration | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Emperor | det |
| 6 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 7 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 Tell | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Tell | punct |
| 10 | Tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 exclaimed | ccomp |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 Tell | iobj |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 procured | advmod |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 procured | nsubj |
| 14 | procured | procure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 Tell | ccomp |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 stone | det |
| 16 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 stone | amod |
| 17 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 procured | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 Tell | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | Full admiration | the Emperor nsubj | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | Full admiration = admiration | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | procure in a quote | past | you | this beautiful stone | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=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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