The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 33
By looking through this tube, you will see whatever object you wish to behold.”
Who acts: you · What happens: look, see, wish · To what, where: object
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | By | by | SCONJ | _ | 2 looking | mark |
| 2 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 see | advcl |
| 3 | through | through | ADP | _ | 5 tube | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 tube | det |
| 5 | tube | tube | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looking | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 looking | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 see | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 see | aux |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | whatever | whatever | DET | PronType=Int | 11 object | det |
| 11 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 see | obj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 wish | nsubj |
| 13 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 object | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 behold | mark |
| 15 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 13 wish | discourse |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 see | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | gerund | you not said here | through this tube | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through tube=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | future | you | whatever object | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer object=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | wish | present | you | whatever object not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot object=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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