The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 109
“Now you have my story,” said Sharp-sense, the Crow, “and this is why I warn you not to become friendly with people about whom you know nothing.”
Who acts: you, Sharp sense, this · What happens: have, say, be, warn, not become, know · To what, where: story, you, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, Sharp sense, this), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 have | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 story | nmod:poss |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sense | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Sharp | punct |
| 12 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Crow | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Crow | det |
| 15 | Crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sense | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 why | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 why | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 why | cc |
| 19 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 why | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 why | cop |
| 21 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 said | parataxis |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 warn | nsubj |
| 23 | warn | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 why | advcl:relcl |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 warn | obj |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 become | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 become | mark |
| 27 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 warn | ccomp |
| 28 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 become | xcomp |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 people | case |
| 30 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 friendly | obl |
| 31 | about | about | ADP | _ | 32 whom | case |
| 32 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 people | nmod |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 know | nsubj |
| 34 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 whom | acl:relcl |
| 35 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 34 know | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 37 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | you | my story | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Patient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Sharp sense and the Crow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | this | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | warn speech: warn in a quote | present | Sharp sense and the Crow = sense | you | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | not become in a quote | to-infinitive | friendly property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | know in a quote | present | you | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
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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