The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 126
“This morning I heard the fishermen who live near here say that they meant to catch every fish that swims in this water.
Who acts: fishermen, fish · What happens: hear, live, say, mean, catch, swim · To what, where: fish, water · 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 (fishermen, fish), 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 heard | punct |
| 2 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 morning | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fishermen | det |
| 7 | fishermen | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 say | nsubj |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 live | nsubj |
| 9 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 fishermen | acl:relcl |
| 10 | near | near | ADP | _ | 11 here | case |
| 11 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 live | obl |
| 12 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | parataxis |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 meant | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 meant | nsubj |
| 15 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 say | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 catch | mark |
| 17 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 meant | xcomp |
| 18 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 fish | det |
| 19 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 catch | obj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 swims | nsubj |
| 21 | swims | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 fish | acl:relcl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 water | case |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 water | det |
| 24 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 swims | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear in a quote | past | the fishermen = fisherman | morning | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | live in a quote | present | the fishermen | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near here=Location | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | the fishermen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | mean in a quote | past | fishermen = fisherman | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | catch not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | fishermen = fisherman not said here | every fish | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme | ||||
| 6 | swim in a quote | present | every fish | this water | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Trajectory |
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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