The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 123
“It is because I am thinking of all who live in this pond that I am so sad,” said the Crane.
Who acts: CRAB, Crane · What happens: be, live, say · To what, where: pond · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (CRAB, Crane), 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 | _ | 7 thinking | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 thinking | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 thinking | cop |
| 4 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 thinking | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 thinking | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 thinking | aux |
| 7 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 said | ccomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 all | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 thinking | obl |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 live | nsubj |
| 11 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 all | acl:relcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 pond | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 pond | det |
| 14 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 live | obl |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 sad | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 sad | nsubj |
| 17 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 sad | cop |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 sad | advmod |
| 19 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 said | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sad | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 sad | punct |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Crane | det |
| 24 | Crane | Crane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 said | nsubj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present · progressive | CRAB | of all; I nsubj; think property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live in a quote | present | this pond | who nsubj | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pond=Location | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the Crane = crane | sad property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the Crane | 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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