The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 57
There is much wickedness in this demand, as you will understand by what I am going to tell you.
Who acts: much wickedness, you · What happens: be, understand, go, tell · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (much wickedness, 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wickedness | amod |
| 4 | wickedness | wickedness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 demand | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 demand | det |
| 7 | demand | demand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wickedness | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 understand | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 understand | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 understand | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 understand | aux |
| 12 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 is | parataxis |
| 13 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 17 going | mark |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 going | nsubj |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 going | nsubj |
| 16 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 going | aux |
| 17 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 understand | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 tell | mark |
| 19 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 going | xcomp |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 tell | iobj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | much wickedness in this demand | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | understand | future | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | go | present · progressive | what nsubj; I nsubj | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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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