The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 127
Every night when I go home to my Mother I am so tired that I sit and rest for a little while in the wood, and then I hear the Nightingale sing, and it is so wonderful that it always brings tears to my eyes.”
Who acts: I, night, sing · What happens: go, be, sit, rest, hear, bring · To what, where: Nightingale sing, tears, eyes
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, night, sing), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 night | det |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tired | nsubj |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 go | advmod |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 go | nsubj |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 night | acl:relcl |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 go | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Mother | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 Mother | nmod:poss |
| 9 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | obl |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 tired | nsubj |
| 11 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 tired | cop |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 tired | advmod |
| 13 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 sit | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 sit | nsubj |
| 16 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 tired | advcl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 rest | cc |
| 18 | rest | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 sit | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 while | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 while | det |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 while | amod |
| 22 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rest | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 wood | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 wood | det |
| 25 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 while | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 hear | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 hear | cc |
| 28 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 hear | advmod |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 hear | nsubj |
| 30 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 sit | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 sing | det |
| 32 | Nightingale | Nightingale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 sing | compound |
| 33 | sing | sing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 hear | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 wonderful | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 wonderful | cc |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 wonderful | nsubj |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 wonderful | cop |
| 38 | so | so | ADV | _ | 39 wonderful | advmod |
| 39 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sit | parataxis |
| 40 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 43 brings | mark |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 brings | nsubj |
| 42 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 43 brings | advmod |
| 43 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 wonderful | advcl |
| 44 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 brings | obj |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 eyes | case |
| 46 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 47 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 brings | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 tired | punct |
| 49 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 tired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | I | to my Mother; home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mother=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | is | present | every night | I nsubj; tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sit | present | I | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | rest | present | I not said here | while | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | hear | present | I | the Nightingale sing | then | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sing=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | is | present | sing | wonderful property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | bring | present | sing | tears | my eyes | always property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tear=Theme to eye=Destination |
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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