The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 18
I can only tell you that your presence has restored to me the joy I have not felt for a long time.
Who acts: I · What happens: tell, restore, not feel · To what, where: you, presence, me, joy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | aux |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 tell | advmod |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | iobj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 restored | mark |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 presence | nmod:poss |
| 8 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 restored | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 restored | aux |
| 10 | restored | restore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 tell | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 restored | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 joy | det |
| 14 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 restored | obj |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 felt | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 felt | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 felt | advmod |
| 18 | felt | feel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 joy | acl:relcl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 time | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 time | det |
| 21 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 time | amod |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 felt | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | can | I | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | restore | present · perfect · passive | your presence | me | the joy obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not feel | present · perfect | I | the joy not said here | time | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joy=Theme |
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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