The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 99
“To all of which the Vulture said: ‘Your words have much weight, but cats are very fond of meat, and as there are young birds here I told you to go.’
Who acts: Vulture, words, cats, young birds, Your · What happens: say, have, be, tell, go, word · To what, where: much weight, 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, words, cats, young birds), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 Vulture | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 which | case |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 Vulture | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Vulture | det |
| 7 | Vulture | vulture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 11 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 words | nmod:poss |
| 12 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 have | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 14 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 weight | amod |
| 15 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 have | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fond | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 fond | cc |
| 18 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 fond | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 fond | cop |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 fond | advmod |
| 21 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 have | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 meat | case |
| 23 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fond | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 told | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 told | cc |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 are | mark |
| 27 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 28 are | expl |
| 28 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 told | ccomp |
| 29 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 birds | amod |
| 30 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 are | nsubj |
| 31 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 are | advmod |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 told | nsubj |
| 33 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 told | iobj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 go | mark |
| 36 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 told | xcomp |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 38 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the Vulture | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | Your words | much weight | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | cats | of meat; fond property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | does in a quote | present | young birds | here; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert in a quote | past | the Vulture = vulture | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | go not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the Vulture = vulture not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | word in a quote | Your | nom word «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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