The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 45
It was not long before she caught up with him, and extending her hand, she struck him upon the shoulder, saying: “Stop, foolish one, do you hope to marry a princess?”
Who acts: garland, Abibas, you · What happens: not be, catch up, extend, strike, say, stop · To what, where: hand, king, foolish one, princess · 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 (garland, Abibas, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 long | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 long | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 long | advmod |
| 4 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 caught | advmod |
| 5 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 7 caught | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 caught | nsubj |
| 7 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 caught | compound:prt |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 caught | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 extending | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 extending | cc |
| 13 | extending | extend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 caught | advcl |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hand | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 extending | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 struck | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 struck | nsubj |
| 18 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 caught | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 struck | obj |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 shoulder | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 shoulder | det |
| 22 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 struck | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 saying | punct |
| 24 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 struck | advcl |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 Stop | punct |
| 26 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 Stop | punct |
| 27 | Stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 saying | ccomp |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 one | punct |
| 29 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 one | amod |
| 30 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Stop | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 hope | punct |
| 32 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 hope | aux |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 hope | nsubj |
| 34 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 Stop | parataxis |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 marry | mark |
| 36 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 hope | xcomp |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 princess | det |
| 38 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 marry | obj |
| 39 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 27 Stop | punct |
| 40 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 Stop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | garland | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | catch up | past | Abibas | with king | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | extend | gerund | Abibas not said here | Abibas's hand | vn body_motion-49.2-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 4 | strike | past | Abibas | king | upon the shoulder | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument | |||
| 5 | say speech: ask | gerund | Abibas not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | stop in a quote | infinitive | foolish one | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality one=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | hope in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | marry not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | a princess | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=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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