The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 110

Then said the Jackal, “When you first met the Deer neither of you knew anything about the other; how is it, then, that you are such friends now?

Who acts: Jackal, you · What happens: say, meet, know, be · To what, where: Deer, anything, story, such friends · 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 (Jackal, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Jackal	det
4	Jackal	Jackal	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 met	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 met	punct
7	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 met	advmod
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 met	nsubj
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 met	advmod
10	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Deer	det
12	Deer	Deer	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 met	obj
13	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	10 met	obj
14	of	of	SCONJ	_	16 knew	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 knew	nsubj
16	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 neither	advcl
17	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 knew	obj
18	about	about	ADP	_	20 other	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 other	det
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 anything	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 it	punct
22	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 it	advmod
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 it	cop
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	ccomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 it	punct
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 said	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 friends	punct
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 friends	mark
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 friends	nsubj
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 friends	cop
31	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 friends	amod
32	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 said	conj
33	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 friends	advmod
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	the Jackal		then; then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	meet in a quote	past	you	the Deer		first property	tree rules
3	know in a quote	past	you	anything		about the other	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus
4	is a in a quote	present		story			tree rules
5	is a in a quote	present	you	such friends	now		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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 110

The tree

Pragmatics

The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 110