The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 124
“That was the best joke,” said he, “I’ve ever seen.
Who acts: That, best joke, joke · What happens: be, say, see · To what, where: best joke · 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 (That, best joke, joke), 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 | _ | 6 joke | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 joke | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 joke | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 joke | det |
| 5 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 joke | amod |
| 6 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 joke | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 joke | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 seen | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 seen | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 seen | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 seen | nsubj |
| 14 | ’ve | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 seen | aux |
| 15 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 16 seen | advmod |
| 16 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 said | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | That | the best joke | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the best joke | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | present · perfect | joke | ever | I nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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