The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 26
“I have some advice to give you.
Who acts: minute · What happens: have, give · To what, where: advice, 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 (minute), 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 have | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 advice | det |
| 5 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 give | mark |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 advice | parataxis |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 give | iobj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | a minute = minute | some advice | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Patient | ||||
| 2 | give in a quote | to-infinitive | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
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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