The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 65
It cost me forty purses, and I am as well satisfied with my purchase as you can be with yours; for on looking at one end of this tube you can see whatever object you wish to behold.
Who acts: tube, I, you, my · What happens: cost, be, look, see, wish, purchase · To what, where: forty purses, me, 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 (tube, I, you, my), 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 cost | nsubj |
| 2 | cost | cost | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 cost | iobj |
| 4 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 purses | nummod |
| 5 | purses | purse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 cost | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 satisfied | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 satisfied | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 satisfied | nsubj |
| 9 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 satisfied | cop |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 satisfied | advmod |
| 11 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 satisfied | advmod |
| 12 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 cost | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 purchase | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 purchase | nmod:poss |
| 15 | purchase | purchase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 satisfied | obl |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 yours | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 yours | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 yours | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 yours | cop |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 yours | case |
| 21 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 purchase | conj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 looking | punct |
| 23 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 looking | mark |
| 24 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 25 looking | mark |
| 25 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 cost | parataxis |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 end | case |
| 27 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 end | nummod |
| 28 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 looking | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 tube | case |
| 30 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 tube | det |
| 31 | tube | tube | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 end | nmod |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 see | nsubj |
| 33 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 see | aux |
| 34 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 looking | parataxis |
| 35 | whatever | whatever | DET | PronType=Int | 36 object | det |
| 36 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 see | obj |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 38 wish | nsubj |
| 38 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 object | acl:relcl |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 behold | mark |
| 40 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 38 wish | discourse |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cost | past | tube | forty purses | me | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme i=Beneficiary purse=Value | |||
| 2 | is | present | I | with my purchase; satisfied, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | can | you | with yours | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | look | gerund | at one end of this tube | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at end=Theme | |||||
| 5 | see | can | you | whatever object | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer object=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | wish | present | you | whatever object not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot object=Theme | ||||
| 7 | purchase | my | nom purchase «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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