The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 107
“By the beard of the Prophet I never saw such a thing in all my life!”
Who acts: Caliph · What happens: not see · To what, where: thing, life
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 (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 | _ | 10 saw | punct |
| 2 | By | by | ADP | _ | 4 beard | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 beard | det |
| 4 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Prophet | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Prophet | det |
| 7 | Prophet | Prophet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 beard | nmod |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 saw | advmod |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 thing | det:predet |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 thing | det |
| 13 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 life | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 life | det:predet |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 life | nmod:poss |
| 17 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obl |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see in a quote | past | the Caliph = caliph | such thing | my life | by the beard of the Prophet | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
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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