The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 38
If you are afraid of it, just nibble a little piece off its tail, instead of gulping it all down.”
Who acts: you · What happens: be, nibble, gulp · To what, where: little piece, piece
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 (you), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 afraid | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 afraid | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 afraid | cop |
| 4 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 afraid | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 nibble | punct |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 nibble | advmod |
| 9 | nibble | nibble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 afraid | parataxis |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 piece | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 piece | amod |
| 12 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 nibble | obj |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 tail | case |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 tail | nmod:poss |
| 15 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 nibble | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 gulping | punct |
| 17 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 19 gulping | mark |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 instead | fixed |
| 19 | gulping | gulp | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 nibble | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gulping | obj |
| 21 | all | all | ADV | _ | 22 down | advmod |
| 22 | down | down | ADV | _ | 19 gulping | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 afraid | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | of hunger; afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | nibble | present | a little piece | off hunger's tail | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient | ||||
| 3 | gulp | gerund | piece | down property | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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