The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 45
It is in your power to avail yourself of the favorable opportunity which presents itself to make you happy.”
Who acts: sight, favorable opportunity · What happens: be, avail, present, make · To what, where: power, yourself, sight, you
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 (sight, favorable opportunity), 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 | 5 power | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 power | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 power | case |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 power | nmod:poss |
| 5 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 avail | mark |
| 7 | avail | avail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 power | acl |
| 8 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 avail | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 opportunity | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 opportunity | det |
| 11 | favorable | favorable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 opportunity | amod |
| 12 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 avail | obl |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 presents | nsubj |
| 14 | presents | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 opportunity | acl:relcl |
| 15 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 presents | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 make | mark |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 presents | advcl |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 make | obj |
| 19 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 make | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 power | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 power | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | sight | your power | your nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | avail | to-infinitive | yourself | of the favorable opportunity | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | present | present | the favorable opportunity | sight | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | the favorable opportunity not said here | you | happy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product |
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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