The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 103
If you desire to see the end of your affliction, set out for Grand Cairo, where great prosperity awaits you.”
Who acts: you, great prosperity, your · What happens: desire, see, set out, await, afflict · To what, where: end, affliction, you
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, great prosperity, your), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 desire | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 desire | nsubj |
| 3 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 ” | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 see | mark |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 desire | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 end | det |
| 7 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 see | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 affliction | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 affliction | nmod:poss |
| 10 | affliction | affliction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 end | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 set | punct |
| 12 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 affliction | acl |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 set | compound:prt |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 Cairo | case |
| 15 | Grand | Grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Cairo | amod |
| 16 | Cairo | Cairo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 set | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 awaits | punct |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 awaits | advmod |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 prosperity | amod |
| 20 | prosperity | prosperity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 awaits | nsubj |
| 21 | awaits | await | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 Cairo | acl:relcl |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 awaits | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 desire | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | root | root |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desire | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | the end of your affliction | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer end=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | set out | participle | your affliction not said here | for Grand Cairo | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | await | present | great prosperity | you | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | afflict | your | nom affliction «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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