The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 112
“Don’t let us talk so much,” said the Deer, “let us all be friends and live happily together.”
Who acts: us, Deer · What happens: not let, talk, say, let, be, live · To what, where: us, 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 (us, Deer), 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 | _ | 4 let | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 let | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 let | advmod |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 let | obj |
| 6 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 let | xcomp |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 much | advmod |
| 8 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 talk | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Deer | det |
| 13 | Deer | Deer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 let | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 let | punct |
| 16 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 17 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 let | obj |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 friends | det |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 friends | cop |
| 20 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 us | nmod:unmarked |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 live | cc |
| 22 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 let | conj |
| 23 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 22 live | advmod |
| 24 | together | together | ADV | _ | 22 live | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 let | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not let in a quote | infinitive · do-support | us | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | talk in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Deer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | infinitive | all friends | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | live in a quote | present | happily, together property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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