The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 11
“I do,” said Sin; “and I would give up all the money I squeezed out of the people when I was a magistrate if I could enjoy the river as you do.”
Who acts: Sin, you · What happens: do, say, give up, squeeze out, be, enjoy · To what, where: money, people, magistrate, river · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Sin, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 do | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Sin | Sin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 give | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 give | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 give | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 give | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 give | aux |
| 13 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 give | compound:prt |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 money | det:predet |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 money | det |
| 17 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 give | obj |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 squeezed | nsubj |
| 19 | squeezed | squeeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 money | acl:relcl |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 people | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 people | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 people | det |
| 23 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 squeezed | obl |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 magistrate | advmod |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 magistrate | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 magistrate | cop |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 magistrate | det |
| 28 | magistrate | magistrate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 give | obj |
| 29 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 32 enjoy | mark |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 enjoy | nsubj |
| 31 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 enjoy | aux |
| 32 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 give | advcl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 river | det |
| 34 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 enjoy | obj |
| 35 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 37 do | mark |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 do | nsubj |
| 37 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 enjoy | advcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 give | punct |
| 39 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present | Sin | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Sin | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give up in a quote | would | Sin | all money | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Source | ||||
| 4 | squeeze out in a quote | past | Sin | the people | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent people=Result | ||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | past | Sin | a magistrate | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | enjoy a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | could | Sin | the river | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer river=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | do in a quote | present | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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