The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 48
You will find several of them will tell you they had not been alive this day had they not made use of this excellent remedy.”
Who acts: You, several, princes, day · What happens: find, tell, not be, have, not make, use · To what, where: you, use, excellent remedy · Speech: someone speaks here
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, several, princes, day), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 find | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 find | aux |
| 3 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tell | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 several | nmod |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 tell | aux |
| 8 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 find | ccomp |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 tell | iobj |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 alive | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 alive | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 alive | advmod |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 alive | cop |
| 14 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tell | ccomp |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 day | det |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 alive | parataxis |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 made | nsubj |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 made | advmod |
| 20 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 had | xcomp |
| 21 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 made | xcomp |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 remedy | case |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 remedy | det |
| 24 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 remedy | amod |
| 25 | remedy | remedy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 use | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 find | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | future | You | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | future | several of princes | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | not is | past · perfect | princes = prince | alive property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | past | this day | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | not make | participle | princes = prince | use of this excellent remedy | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 6 | use | this excellent remedy | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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