The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 88
“The Cat then begged the Vulture to listen to what he had to say, and afterward decide whether he should live or die.
Who acts: Cat · What happens: beg, listen, have, say, decide, live · To what, where: Vulture · 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 (Cat), 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 begged | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Cat | det |
| 3 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 begged | nsubj |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 begged | advmod |
| 5 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Vulture | det |
| 7 | Vulture | vulture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 begged | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 listen | mark |
| 9 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 begged | xcomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 what | case |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 listen | obl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 what | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 say | mark |
| 15 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 had | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 decide | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 decide | cc |
| 18 | afterward | afterward | ADV | _ | 19 decide | advmod |
| 19 | decide | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 begged | conj |
| 20 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 23 live | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 live | nsubj |
| 22 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 live | aux |
| 23 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 decide | ccomp |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 die | cc |
| 25 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 live | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request in a quote | past | the Cat | the Vulture | then | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent vulture=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | listen not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the Cat not said here | what obl | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to what=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | past | Cat | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | to-infinitive | Cat not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | decide in a quote | present | the Cat not said here | afterward property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | live in a quote | should | Cat | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | die in a quote | infinitive | Cat not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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