The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 27
No one knows better than you that men are always trying to catch fish, both by hook and net.
Who acts: one, men · What happens: know, try, catch · To what, where: fish
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 (one, men), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knows | nsubj |
| 3 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 knows | xcomp |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 better | obl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 trying | mark |
| 8 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 trying | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 trying | aux |
| 10 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 11 trying | advmod |
| 11 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 knows | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 catch | mark |
| 13 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 trying | xcomp |
| 14 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 catch | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hook | punct |
| 16 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 18 hook | cc:preconj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 hook | case |
| 18 | hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 trying | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 net | cc |
| 20 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hook | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | no one | good property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | try | present · progressive | men | by hook and net; always property | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | catch not said to happen | to-infinitive | men not said here | fish | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=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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