--- title: “This morning I heard the fishermen who live near here say that they… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: “This morning I heard the fishermen who live near here say that they meant to catch every fish that swims in this water. Who acts: fishermen, fish. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/8/126/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Jade Story Book; Stories from the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/) / [Opening, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/8/) / 126 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 126 “This morning I heard the fishermen who live near here say that they meant to catch every fish that swims in this water. **Who acts:** fishermen, fish · **What happens:** hear, live, say, mean, catch, swim · **To what, where:** fish, water · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fishermen, fish), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg65965:8:129 # text = “This morning I heard the fishermen who live near here say that they meant to catch every fish that swims in this water. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 This this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 fishermen fisherman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 8 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 near near ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 9 obl _ _ 12 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 13 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 meant mean VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 ccomp _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 19 det _ _ 19 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 swims swim VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 24 det _ _ 24 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** *in a quote* | past | the fishermen *= fisherman* | | | | morning | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **live** *in a quote* | present | the fishermen | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near here=Location | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | the fishermen | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **mean** *in a quote* | past | fishermen *= fisherman* | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **catch** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | fishermen *= fisherman* *not said here* | every fish | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme | | 6 | **swim** *in a quote* | present | every fish | | | this water | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Trajectory | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 125](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/8/125/) - next →: [sentence 127](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/8/127/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/8/)