The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 26
Therefore, I shall always take real pleasure in performing whatever you can desire.”
Who acts: I, you · What happens: take, perform, desire · To what, where: real pleasure, whatever
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 6 take | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Therefore | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 take | nsubj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 take | aux |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 take | advmod |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pleasure | amod |
| 8 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obj |
| 9 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 10 performing | mark |
| 10 | performing | perform | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 take | advcl |
| 11 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 desire | obj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 desire | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 desire | aux |
| 14 | desire | desire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 performing | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 take | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | shall | I | real pleasure | always, therefore property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Theme | |||
| 2 | perform | gerund | I not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | desire | can | you | whatever | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot whatever=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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