The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 125
It’s a pity the stupid creatures were scared away by our laughter, or no doubt they would have sung next!”
Who acts: Meantime, stupid creatures · What happens: be, sing · To what, where: pity, doubt
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 (Meantime, stupid creatures), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pity | nsubj |
| 2 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 pity | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 pity | det |
| 4 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 creatures | det |
| 6 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 creatures | amod |
| 7 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 scared | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 scared | cop |
| 9 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pity | acl:relcl |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 scared | advmod |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 laughter | case |
| 12 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 laughter | nmod:poss |
| 13 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 scared | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sung | punct |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 sung | cc |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 doubt | det |
| 17 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sung | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 sung | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 sung | aux |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 sung | aux |
| 21 | sung | sing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 pity | parataxis |
| 22 | next | next | ADV | _ | 21 sung | advmod |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 21 sung | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 pity | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Meantime | a pity | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the stupid creatures | a pity not said here | by our laughter; away, scared property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | sing speech: express | would · perfect · passive | no doubt | Caliph nsubj:pass; next property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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