The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 58
Whoever sits on it, and desires to be transported to any place, be it ever so far distant, is immediately carried thither.
Who acts: Whoever · What happens: sit, desire, transport, be, carry · To what, where: 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 (Whoever), 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 | Whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 sits | nsubj |
| 2 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 it | case |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sits | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 desires | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 desires | cc |
| 7 | desires | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 sits | parataxis |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 transported | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 transported | aux:pass |
| 10 | transported | transport | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 desires | xcomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 place | case |
| 12 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 place | det |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 transported | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 be | punct |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 distant | cop |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 be | obj |
| 17 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 20 distant | advmod |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 distant | advmod |
| 19 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 distant | advmod |
| 20 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 desires | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 carried | punct |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 carried | aux:pass |
| 23 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 24 carried | advmod |
| 24 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 distant | conj |
| 25 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 24 carried | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sits | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | Whoever | rarity | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on it=Location | ||||
| 2 | desire | present | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | transport not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | to any place | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 4 | is | infinitive | ever | distant, far property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | carry | present · passive | immediately, thither property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP» |
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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