The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 5
I will give each of you a sum suited to your rank, and for the purchase of the rarity you shall search after.”
Who acts: I, you · What happens: give, suit, search, purchase · To what, where: each, sum, rarity
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 (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 give | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | aux |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 give | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 each | nmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sum | det |
| 8 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 9 | suited | suit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 sum | acl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 rank | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 rank | nmod:poss |
| 12 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 suited | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 search | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 search | cc |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 purchase | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 purchase | det |
| 17 | purchase | purchase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 search | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 rarity | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 rarity | det |
| 20 | rarity | rarity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 purchase | nmod |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 search | nsubj |
| 22 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 search | aux |
| 23 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 give | conj |
| 24 | after | after | ADV | _ | 23 search | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | future | I | each of you | a sum obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent each=Recipient sum=Theme | |||
| 2 | suit | participle | a sum not said here | to your rank | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | search | shall | you | for the purchase of the rarity; after property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for purchase=Theme | ||||
| 4 | purchase | the rarity | nom purchase «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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