The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 91
The birds that often visit me have said so much in your praise that I have come here, hoping to learn wisdom from you.
Who acts: praise, your · What happens: visit, say, come, hope, learn, praise · To what, where: birds, wisdom · 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 (praise, your), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 birds | det |
| 2 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 visit | obj |
| 4 | often | often | ADV | _ | 5 visit | advmod |
| 5 | visit | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 birds | acl:relcl |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 visit | obj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | aux |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 much | advmod |
| 10 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 praise | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 praise | nmod:poss |
| 13 | praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 much | nmod |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 come | nsubj |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 come | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 come | aux |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 praise | acl:relcl |
| 18 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 come | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hoping | punct |
| 20 | hoping | hope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 learn | mark |
| 22 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 hoping | xcomp |
| 23 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 learn | obj |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 you | case |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 learn | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | visit | present | the birds | me obj; often property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | infinitive · perfect · passive | the birds | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme much=Manner | |||||
| 3 | come | present · perfect | your praise | here | I nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | hope | gerund | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | learn not said to happen | to-infinitive | wisdom | from you | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent wisdom=Topic from you=Source | ||||
| 6 | praise | your | nom praise «communication transitive»: poss=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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