The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 43
Your hope that you may attain your deliverance through us is but a vain one.
Who acts: hope, Your · What happens: attain, be, hope, deliver · To what, where: deliverance, vain one
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 (hope, Your), 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 hope | nmod:poss |
| 2 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 one | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 attain | nsubj |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 attain | nsubj |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 attain | aux |
| 6 | attain | attain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 hope | acl:relcl |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 deliverance | nmod:poss |
| 8 | deliverance | deliverance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 attain | obj |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 us | case |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 attain | obl |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 one | cop |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 one | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 one | det |
| 14 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 one | amod |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attain | may | Your hope | your deliverance | through us; you nsubj | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deliverance=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | present | Your hope | a vain one | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hope | Your | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | deliver | your | nom deliverance «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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