The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 44
It cures all sick persons of every disease, and even if the patient is dying, it will help him immediately, and restore him to perfect health; and this merely by the patient’s smelling it.”
Who acts: apple, patient · What happens: cure, die, help, restore, smell · To what, where: sick persons, patient, apple
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 (apple, patient), 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 | 2 cures | nsubj |
| 2 | cures | cure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 persons | det |
| 4 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 persons | amod |
| 5 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 cures | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 disease | case |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 disease | det |
| 8 | disease | disease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 persons | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 dying | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 dying | cc |
| 11 | even | even | ADV | _ | 16 dying | advmod |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 dying | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 patient | det |
| 14 | patient | patient | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dying | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 dying | aux |
| 16 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 cures | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 help | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 help | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 help | aux |
| 20 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 cures | parataxis |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 help | obj |
| 22 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 20 help | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 restore | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 restore | cc |
| 25 | restore | restore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 help | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 restore | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 health | mark |
| 28 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 health | amod |
| 29 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 restore | xcomp |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 smelling | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 smelling | cc |
| 32 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 merely | nsubj |
| 33 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 38 smelling | advmod |
| 34 | by | by | ADP | _ | 36 patient | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 patient | det |
| 36 | patient | patient | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 merely | obl |
| 37 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 smelling | aux |
| 38 | smelling | smell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 cures | parataxis |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 smelling | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 38 smelling | punct |
| 41 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 cures | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cure | present | apple | all sick persons of every disease | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer person=Source | ||||
| 2 | die a condition, not said to happen | present · progressive | the patient | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | help | future | apple | patient | immediately property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | restore | infinitive | apple not said here | patient | perfect health xcomp | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 5 | smell | present · progressive | apple | merely property | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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