The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 74
This apple which you see cost the same sum as the carpet and the tube; but it has this surprising power—its smell will restore to life a sick person, whatever be the malady.
Who acts: you, apple, tube, smell · What happens: see, cost, have, restore, be, smell · To what, where: apple, same sum, surprising power, sick person, life, malady
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, apple, tube, smell), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 apple | det |
| 2 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cost | nsubj |
| 3 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 see | obj |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 apple | acl:relcl |
| 6 | cost | cost | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sum | det |
| 8 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sum | amod |
| 9 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cost | obj |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 carpet | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 carpet | det |
| 12 | carpet | carpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sum | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 tube | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tube | det |
| 15 | tube | tube | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carpet | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 has | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 has | cc |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 has | nsubj |
| 19 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 cost | parataxis |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 power | det |
| 21 | surprising | surprising | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 power | amod |
| 22 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 has | obj |
| 23 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 restore | punct |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 smell | nmod:poss |
| 25 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 restore | nsubj |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 restore | aux |
| 27 | restore | restore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 has | conj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 life | case |
| 29 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 restore | obl |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 person | det |
| 31 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 person | amod |
| 32 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 restore | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 malady | punct |
| 34 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 malady | det:predet |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 malady | cop |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 malady | det |
| 37 | malady | malady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 person | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | you | this apple | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | cost | present | this apple | the same sum | as the carpet and the tube | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme sum=Value | |||
| 3 | have | present | tube | this surprising power | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | ||||
| 4 | restore | future | tube's smell | a sick person and whatever malady | life | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent person=Theme to life=Recipient | |||
| 5 | is a | infinitive | tube's smell not said here | whatever malady | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | smell | tube | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: 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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