The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 12

They thought this was all right, and so selected their sharpest fish, one whom they considered could not be outwitted, and handed him over to the Crane.

Who acts: interests, this · What happens: think, be, select, consider, not outwit, hand over · To what, where: sharpest fish, Crane · 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 (interests, this), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 right	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 right	cop
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 right	advmod
6	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 selected	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 selected	cc
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 selected	advmod
10	selected	select	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	conj
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 fish	nmod:poss
12	sharpest	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 fish	amod
13	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 selected	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 whom	punct
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 whom	nsubj
16	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 selected	obl
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 considered	nsubj
18	considered	consider	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 whom	acl:relcl
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 outwitted	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 outwitted	advmod
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 outwitted	aux:pass
22	outwitted	outwit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 considered	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 handed	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 handed	cc
25	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 handed	obj
27	over	over	ADP	_	25 handed	compound:prt
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 Crane	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Crane	det
30	Crane	Crane	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 handed	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	interests = interest				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	this			all, right property	tree rules
3	select	past	interests = interest not said here	interests's sharpest fish		whom obl	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme
4	consider	past	interests = interest				vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	not outwit	could · passive	interests = interest not said here				vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»
6	hand over	past	interests = interest not said here	Crane	the Crane		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to crane=Destination

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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 12

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 12