The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 115
One day the Jackal said to the Deer, “Come with me, and I will show you where there is a field full of sweet young wheat.”
Who acts: Jackal, field · What happens: say, come, show, be · To what, where: Deer · 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, field), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Jackal | det |
| 4 | Jackal | Jackal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Deer | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Deer | det |
| 8 | Deer | Deer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Come | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Come | punct |
| 11 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 Come | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 show | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 show | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 show | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 show | aux |
| 18 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 Come | parataxis |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 show | iobj |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 is | advmod |
| 21 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 is | expl |
| 22 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 show | ccomp |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 field | det |
| 24 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 is | nsubj |
| 25 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 field | amod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 wheat | case |
| 27 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 wheat | amod |
| 28 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 wheat | amod |
| 29 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 full | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 Come | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Jackal | the Deer | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to deer=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | come in a quote | infinitive | with the Jackal = jackal | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | show in a quote | future | the Jackal = jackal | the Deer = deer | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | be in a quote | present | a field | there | vn exist-47.1 «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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