The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 123
To the Deer he said, “These strings are very strong, and this is a fast day for me, so I cannot bite them.
Who acts: DEER, strings, this · What happens: say, be, not bite · To what, where: Deer, fast day, strings · 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 (DEER, strings, 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 Deer | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Deer | det |
| 3 | Deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 strong | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 strong | punct |
| 8 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 strings | det |
| 9 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 strong | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 strong | cop |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 strong | advmod |
| 12 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 day | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 day | cc |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 day | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 day | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 day | det |
| 18 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 day | amod |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 strong | obl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 me | case |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 day | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 bite | punct |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 bite | advmod |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 bite | nsubj |
| 25 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 bite | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 bite | advmod |
| 27 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | conj |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 bite | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | DEER | the Deer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to deer=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | this strings | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | this | a fast day | for DEER | tree rules | |||
| 4 | not bite in a quote | can | DEER | strings = string | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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