Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people, Opening, part 4, sentence 128
“What an old, old man you are!” said the perfect boy; “never have I seen you before.
Who acts: I · What happens: say, see · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 said | nsubj:outer |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 old | punct |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 What | appos |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 are | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 man | acl:relcl |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 man | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 boy | det |
| 14 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 boy | amod |
| 15 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 seen | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 seen | punct |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 19 have | advmod |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 seen | aux |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 seen | nsubj |
| 21 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 said | conj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 seen | obj |
| 23 | before | before | ADV | _ | 21 seen | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | What nsubj:outer; the perfect boy nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | see in a quote | present · perfect | I | you | before property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=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: «Indian tales of the great ones among men, women, and bird-people» by Cornelia Sorabji, Project Gutenberg book 69647 (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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