The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 62
I too feel sure of this, for in my earliest youth a wise woman foretold that a stork would bring me some great happiness, and I think I could tell you how we might save ourselves.”
Who acts: I, stork, we · What happens: feel, foretell, bring, think, tell, save · To what, where: wise woman, great happiness, me, you, ourselves · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, stork, we), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 feel | nsubj |
| 2 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 feel | advmod |
| 3 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 feel | xcomp |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 this | case |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 sure | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 youth | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 youth | case |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 youth | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 youth | nmod:poss |
| 11 | earliest | early | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 youth | amod |
| 12 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 feel | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 woman | det |
| 14 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 woman | amod |
| 15 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 youth | appos |
| 16 | foretold | foretell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 woman | acl |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 bring | mark |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 stork | det |
| 19 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bring | nsubj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 bring | aux |
| 21 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 foretold | advcl |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 bring | obj |
| 23 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 happiness | det |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 happiness | amod |
| 25 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bring | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 think | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 think | cc |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 think | nsubj |
| 29 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 feel | parataxis |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 tell | nsubj |
| 31 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 tell | aux |
| 32 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 think | ccomp |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 tell | iobj |
| 34 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 37 save | advmod |
| 35 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 save | nsubj |
| 36 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 save | aux |
| 37 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 tell | advcl |
| 38 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 37 save | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 feel | punct |
| 40 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | I | my earliest youth conj; sure property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | foretell | participle | a wise woman not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bring | would | a stork | some great happiness | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination happiness=Theme | |||
| 4 | think speech: other | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | could | I | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | save | might | we | ourselves | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ourselves=Theme |
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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