The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 68
The Prime Minister was unable to reply, and the Emperor said: “You wretched monster of ingratitude!
Who acts: Prime Minister, Emperor, You · What happens: be, reply, say, monster · 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 (Prime Minister, Emperor, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Minister | det |
| 2 | Prime | Prime | PROPN | _ | 3 Minister | compound |
| 3 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 unable | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 unable | cop |
| 5 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 reply | mark |
| 7 | reply | reply | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 unable | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Emperor | det |
| 11 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 unable | conj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 monster | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 monster | punct |
| 15 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 monster | nsubj |
| 16 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 monster | amod |
| 17 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | ccomp |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 ingratitude | case |
| 19 | ingratitude | ingratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 monster | nmod |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 unable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Prime Minister | unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | to-infinitive | the Prime Minister not said here | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | the Emperor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | monster in a quote | You | of ingratitude | 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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