The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 8
This the trembling fishes begged him to do, that is, all but one of them, who said:
Who acts: trembling fishes, that · What happens: beg, do, be, say · To what, where: Crane, one · 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 (trembling fishes, that), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 fishes | det |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 trembling | det |
| 3 | trembling | trembling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fishes | compound |
| 4 | fishes | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 begged | nsubj |
| 5 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 begged | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 begged | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 one | punct |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 one | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 one | cop |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 is | punct |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 one | nsubj |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 one | cc |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 begged | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 one | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 said | nsubj |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 begged | parataxis |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | this trembling fishes | Crane | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | this trembling fishes not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | that | one | of fishes = fish | tree rules | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | who nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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