The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 88
To-morrow morning I shall expect you early; we will go into the country, take some snuff from my box, and then hear what is being said in air, earth, and water.”
Who acts: I, we · What happens: expect, go, take, hear, say · To what, where: you, water, country, snuff, box, air · 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 (I, we), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 morning | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 To | punct |
| 3 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 morning | compound |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 expect | obl |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 expect | nsubj |
| 6 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 expect | aux |
| 7 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 expect | obj |
| 9 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 expect | advmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 go | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 go | aux |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 expect | parataxis |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 country | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 country | det |
| 16 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 go | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 take | punct |
| 18 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 go | parataxis |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 snuff | det |
| 20 | snuff | snuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 take | obj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 box | case |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 box | nmod:poss |
| 23 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 take | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 hear | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 hear | cc |
| 26 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 hear | advmod |
| 27 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 go | conj |
| 28 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 31 said | obj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 said | aux:pass |
| 30 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 said | aux:pass |
| 31 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 hear | ccomp |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 air | case |
| 33 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 said | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 earth | punct |
| 35 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 air | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 water | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 water | cc |
| 38 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 go | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 expect | punct |
| 40 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 expect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect | shall | I | you | morning | early property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||
| 2 | go | future | we | water | the country | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into country=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | take | infinitive | some snuff | my box | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent snuff=Theme from box=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | hear | infinitive | we not said here | then | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | present · passive | air and earth | what obj | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: what=Theme in air=Manner |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/9/88/