The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 87
“‘Go away at once, Cat, or I will kill you,’ said the Vulture.
Who acts: Vulture · What happens: go, kill, say · To what, where: Cat, you · 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 (Vulture), 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 | _ | 3 Go | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Go | punct |
| 3 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 said | ccomp |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 Go | advmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 once | case |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 away | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Cat | punct |
| 8 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Go | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 kill | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 kill | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 kill | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 kill | aux |
| 13 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 Go | conj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 kill | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Go | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Go | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Vulture | det |
| 19 | Vulture | Vulture | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | infinitive | Cat | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | kill in a quote | future | the Vulture = vulture | you | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the Vulture | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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