The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 79
“Well,” said the Caliph, “if it is Latin, let us hear what it means.”
Who acts: Caliph, sun., us · What happens: say, be, let, hear, mean · To what, where: 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 (Caliph, sun., us), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Caliph | det |
| 7 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Latin | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Latin | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 Latin | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 Latin | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 Latin | cop |
| 13 | Latin | Latin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 let | punct |
| 15 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 Latin | parataxis |
| 16 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 let | obj |
| 17 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 let | xcomp |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 means | obj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 means | nsubj |
| 20 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 hear | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Caliph | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | sun. | latin property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | hear in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | mean in a quote | present | sun. | what obj | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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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