The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 97
“I would wager my beard, most gracious master,” said the Grand Vizier, “that these two long-legs will have a good chat together.
Who acts: Grand Vizier, two long legs · What happens: wager, say, have · To what, where: beard, good chat · 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 (Grand Vizier, two long legs), 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 | _ | 4 wager | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 wager | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 wager | aux |
| 4 | wager | wager | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 beard | nmod:poss |
| 6 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wager | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 master | punct |
| 8 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 9 gracious | advmod |
| 9 | gracious | gracious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 master | amod |
| 10 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 beard | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wager | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wager | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Vizier | det |
| 15 | Grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Vizier | amod |
| 16 | Vizier | Vizier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 have | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 have | punct |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 have | mark |
| 20 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 24 legs | det |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 legs | nummod |
| 22 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 legs | amod |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 long | punct |
| 24 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 have | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 have | aux |
| 26 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | conj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 chat | det |
| 28 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 chat | amod |
| 29 | chat | chat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 have | obj |
| 30 | together | together | ADV | _ | 26 have | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wager in a quote | would | the Grand Vizier = vizier | my beard and gracious master | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent beard=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Grand Vizier | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | future | this two long legs | a good chat | together property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chat=Patient |
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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