The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 28
“I am now going to eat you, just as I have eaten every one of the fish, whose bones you can see if you look.”
Who acts: Crane, you · What happens: go, eat, see, look · To what, where: you, one, bones
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 (Crane, you), 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 | _ | 5 going | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 going | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 going | aux |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 going | advmod |
| 5 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 eat | mark |
| 7 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 going | xcomp |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 eat | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 eaten | punct |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 eaten | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 eaten | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 eaten | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 eaten | aux |
| 14 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 going | conj |
| 15 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 one | det |
| 16 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 eaten | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 fish | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 fish | det |
| 19 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 one | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 bones | punct |
| 21 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 22 bones | nmod:poss |
| 22 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 one | nmod |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 see | nsubj |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 see | aux |
| 25 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 bones | acl:relcl |
| 26 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 look | mark |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 look | nsubj |
| 28 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 see | ccomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | present · progressive | the Crane = crane | now | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | eat in a quote | to-infinitive | the Crane = crane not said here | you | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | ||||
| 3 | eat in a quote | present · perfect | the Crane = crane | every one of the fish every one of the fish every one's bones's bones | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | ||||
| 4 | see in a quote | can | you | every one of the fish every one of the fish bones's bones's bones not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | look a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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