The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 68
My grief is so heavy at his strange absence that I shall sink under it.
Who acts: grief, strange absence, Prince · What happens: be, sink, absent · To what, where: strange absence, grief
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 (grief, strange absence, Prince), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 grief | nmod:poss |
| 2 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heavy | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 heavy | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 heavy | advmod |
| 5 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 absence | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 absence | nmod:poss |
| 8 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 absence | amod |
| 9 | absence | absence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heavy | obl |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 sink | nsubj |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 sink | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 sink | aux |
| 13 | sink | sink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 absence | acl:relcl |
| 14 | under | under | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sink | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heavy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | My grief | Prince's strange absence | heavy property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sink | shall | Prince's strange absence | grief | I nsubj | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | absent | Prince | nom absence «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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