The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 96
The Chinese are slow to change, but even they will turn in time on a constant worrier.
Who acts: Chinese, people · What happens: be, change, turn · To what, where: constant worrier
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chinese, people), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Chinese | det |
| 2 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 slow | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 slow | cop |
| 4 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 change | mark |
| 6 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 slow | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 turn | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 turn | cc |
| 9 | even | even | ADV | _ | 12 turn | advmod |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 turn | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 turn | aux |
| 12 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 slow | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 turn | obl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 worrier | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 worrier | det |
| 17 | constant | constant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 worrier | amod |
| 18 | worrier | worrier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 turn | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 slow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the Chinese | slow property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | change | to-infinitive | the Chinese not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | turn | future | people | a constant worrier | time | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on worrier=Trajectory |
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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