The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 20
“The gentleman who brought me to you has shown me that only fishes can really appreciate life in the river, and I am sure that the full enjoyment of such must be wonderful.”
Who acts: gentleman, fishes, Sin, full enjoyment · What happens: bring, show, appreciate, be · To what, where: Sin, you, gentleman, life · 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 (gentleman, fishes, Sin, full enjoyment), 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 | _ | 10 shown | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gentleman | det |
| 3 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shown | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 brought | nsubj |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gentleman | acl:relcl |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 brought | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 brought | obl |
| 9 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 shown | aux |
| 10 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 shown | obj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 appreciate | mark |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 fishes | advmod |
| 14 | fishes | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 appreciate | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 appreciate | aux |
| 16 | really | really | ADV | _ | 17 appreciate | advmod |
| 17 | appreciate | appreciate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 shown | advcl |
| 18 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 appreciate | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 river | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 river | det |
| 21 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 appreciate | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 sure | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 sure | cc |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 sure | nsubj |
| 25 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 sure | cop |
| 26 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 shown | conj |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 wonderful | mark |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 enjoyment | det |
| 29 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 enjoyment | amod |
| 30 | enjoyment | enjoyment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 wonderful | nsubj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 such | case |
| 32 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 30 enjoyment | nmod |
| 33 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 wonderful | aux |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 wonderful | cop |
| 35 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 sure | ccomp |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 shown | punct |
| 37 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 shown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in a quote | past | the gentleman | Sin | you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to you=Destination | |||
| 2 | show in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the gentleman | me obj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=Topic | ||||
| 3 | appreciate in a quote | can | fishes | life | in the river | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient life=Extent in river=Attribute | |||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | Sin | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | must | the full enjoyment of such | wonderful property | tree rules |
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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