The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 140
At any rate, the task now enjoined on you is not so bad as your former long journeys.”
Who acts: task, your · What happens: enjoin, not be, journey · To what, where: task, rate
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 (task, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 rate | case |
| 2 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 rate | det |
| 3 | rate | rate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bad | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 rate | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 task | det |
| 6 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bad | nsubj |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 enjoined | advmod |
| 8 | enjoined | enjoin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 task | acl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 you | case |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 enjoined | obl |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 bad | cop |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 bad | advmod |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 bad | advmod |
| 14 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 journeys | case |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 journeys | nmod:poss |
| 17 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 journeys | amod |
| 18 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 journeys | amod |
| 19 | journeys | journey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 bad | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 bad | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 bad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enjoin | participle | the task not said here | now | on you | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not is | present | the task | any rate | as your former long journeys; bad property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | journey | your | nom journey «act 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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