The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 2
One of them said: “In this case the Crane’s interests are the same as ours, because, while we furnish the food which keeps him alive there are many of us left, but when the fishermen capture us we shall die.
Who acts: One, interests, we, food, Crane, many · What happens: say, be, furnish, keep, leave, capture · To what, where: case, food, Crane, us · 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 (One, interests, we, food), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 said | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 One | nmod |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 same | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 same | punct |
| 7 | In | in | ADP | _ | 9 case | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 case | det |
| 9 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 same | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Crane | det |
| 11 | Crane | Crane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 interests | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 Crane | case |
| 13 | interests | interest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 same | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 same | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 same | det |
| 16 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 said | ccomp |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 ours | case |
| 18 | ours | our | PRON | Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 same | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 furnish | punct |
| 20 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 24 furnish | mark |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 furnish | punct |
| 22 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 24 furnish | mark |
| 23 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 furnish | nsubj |
| 24 | furnish | furnish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | parataxis |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 food | det |
| 26 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 furnish | obj |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 keeps | nsubj |
| 28 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 food | acl:relcl |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 keeps | obj |
| 30 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 keeps | xcomp |
| 31 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 32 are | expl |
| 32 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 alive | cop |
| 33 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 left | nsubj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 us | case |
| 35 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 many | nmod |
| 36 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 are | ccomp |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 die | punct |
| 38 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 46 die | cc |
| 39 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 42 capture | mark |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 fishermen | det |
| 41 | fishermen | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 capture | nsubj |
| 42 | capture | capture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 die | advcl |
| 43 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 capture | obj |
| 44 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 46 die | nsubj |
| 45 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 die | aux |
| 46 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 furnish | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | One of fishes | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the Crane's interests | this case | as ours; same property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | furnish in a quote | present | we | the food | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | keep in a quote | present | the food | Crane | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | Crane not said here | alive property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | leave in a quote | past | many of us | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | capture in a quote | present | the fishermen | us | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | ||||
| 8 | die in a quote | shall | we | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 9 | interest in a quote | the Crane | nom interest «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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