The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 3
It would indeed prove but a poor joke if I had to remain a stork for the remainder of my days!
Who acts: transformation, I · What happens: prove, have, remain · To what, where: stork
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (transformation, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 prove | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 prove | aux |
| 3 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 4 prove | advmod |
| 4 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 joke | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 joke | det |
| 7 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 joke | amod |
| 8 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 prove | conj |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 had | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 prove | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 remain | mark |
| 13 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 had | xcomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 stork | det |
| 15 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 remain | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 remainder | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 remainder | det |
| 18 | remainder | remainder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 remain | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 days | case |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 days | nmod:poss |
| 21 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 remainder | nmod |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 prove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prove | would | transformation | a poor joke conj; indeed property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have a condition, not said to happen | past | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | remain | to-infinitive | I not said here | a stork | for the remainder of my days | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stork=Attribute |
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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