The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 70
“It is a Jackal who wishes to know us,” answered the Deer.
Who acts: companion, Jackal, Deer · What happens: be, wish, know, answer · To what, where: Jackal, us · 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 (companion, Jackal, 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 | _ | 5 Jackal | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 Jackal | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Jackal | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Jackal | det |
| 5 | Jackal | Jackal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 wishes | nsubj |
| 7 | wishes | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Jackal | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 know | mark |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wishes | xcomp |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 know | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Jackal | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Jackal | punct |
| 13 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Deer | det |
| 15 | Deer | Deer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | companion | a Jackal | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wish in a quote | present | a Jackal | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | know not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | a Jackal not said here | us | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer we=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | answer speech: assert | past | the Deer | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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