The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 122
That old man is no other than the production of my disturbed imagination.
Who acts: old man, my · What happens: be, disturb, produce, imagine · To what, where: disturbed imagination
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 (old man, my), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 other | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 other | cop |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 other | det |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 production | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 production | det |
| 9 | production | production | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 other | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 imagination | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 imagination | nmod:poss |
| 12 | disturbed | disturb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 imagination | amod |
| 13 | imagination | imagination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 production | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 other | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | that old man | than the production of my disturbed imagination; other property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | disturb | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | produce | my disturbed imagination | nom production «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | imagine | my | nom imagination «cognition 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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