The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 10
The children wouldn’t believe him when he declared that he had touched neither the stone nor the bag, and they shouted and jeered at him.
Who acts: children, Chô · What happens: not believe, declare, touch, shout, jeer · To what, where: Chô, stone
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, Chô), 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 | 2 children | det |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 believe | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 believe | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 believe | advmod |
| 5 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 believe | obj |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 declared | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 declared | nsubj |
| 9 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 believe | advcl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 touched | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 touched | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 touched | aux |
| 13 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 declared | advcl |
| 14 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 16 stone | cc:preconj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stone | det |
| 16 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 touched | obj |
| 17 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 19 bag | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bag | det |
| 19 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stone | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 shouted | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 shouted | cc |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 shouted | nsubj |
| 23 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 believe | parataxis |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 jeered | cc |
| 25 | jeered | jeer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 shouted | conj |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 jeered | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not believe | would | the children | Chô | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | declare speech: other | past | Chô | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | touch | past · perfect | Chô | the stone nor the bag | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stone=Co-Theme | ||||
| 4 | shout speech: express | past | children = child | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | jeer | past | children = child not said here | at Chô | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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