The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 106
“You’ve got a fine long bill, Sir Vizier,” cried the Caliph, after standing for some time lost in astonishment.
Who acts: You, Caliph · What happens: get, cry, stand, lose · To what, where: fine long bill, time, astonishment · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Caliph), 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 | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 3 | ’ve | 've | PUNCT | _ | 2 You | punct |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 cried | parataxis |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bill | det |
| 6 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bill | amod |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bill | amod |
| 8 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Sir | punct |
| 10 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 bill | appos |
| 11 | Vizier | Vizier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Sir | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 14 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Caliph | det |
| 16 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 cried | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 standing | punct |
| 18 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 19 standing | mark |
| 19 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 cried | advcl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 time | case |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 time | det |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 standing | obl |
| 23 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 time | acl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 astonishment | case |
| 25 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lost | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | past | You | a fine long bill | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bill=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the Caliph | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | stand | gerund | the Caliph not said here | time | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | lose | participle | some time not said here | astonishment | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in astonishment=Eventuality |
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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