The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 36
There must be come mystery in this; and perhaps fortune, to make amends for depriving me of what I thought the greatest happiness of my life, may have reserved a greater blessing for my comfort.”
Who acts: fortune, I, my · What happens: come, make, deprive, think, reserve, comfort · To what, where: mystery, amends, me, greatest happiness, greater blessing
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fortune, I, 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 come | expl |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 come | aux:pass |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | mystery | mystery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 this | case |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 mystery | nmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 make | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 make | cc |
| 10 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 11 fortune | advmod |
| 11 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 make | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 make | punct |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 make | mark |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 come | parataxis |
| 15 | amends | amend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 make | obj |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 depriving | mark |
| 17 | depriving | deprive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 make | advcl |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 depriving | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 what | case |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 depriving | obl |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 thought | nsubj |
| 22 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 what | acl:relcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 happiness | det |
| 24 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 25 happiness | amod |
| 25 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 thought | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 life | case |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 life | nmod:poss |
| 28 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 happiness | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 reserved | punct |
| 30 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 reserved | aux |
| 31 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 reserved | aux |
| 32 | reserved | reserve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 come | conj |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 blessing | det |
| 34 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 35 blessing | amod |
| 35 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 reserved | obj |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 comfort | case |
| 37 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 comfort | nmod:poss |
| 38 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 blessing | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 40 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | must · passive | mystery in this | there | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | fortune | amends | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset amend=Product | ||||
| 3 | deprive | gerund | fortune not said here | me | what obl | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Source of what=Theme | |||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | I | the greatest happiness of my life | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot happiness=Theme | ||||
| 5 | reserve | may · perfect | a greater blessing | for my comfort | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent blessing=Theme for comfort=Beneficiary | ||||
| 6 | comfort | my | nom comfort «state 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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