The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 58
This fellow Chang has caused me great pain, and refuses to put me back into the water.
Who acts: fellow Chang · What happens: cause, refuse, not put back · To what, where: great pain, me, water
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 (fellow Chang), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 Chang | nsubj |
| 2 | fellow | fellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Chang | amod |
| 3 | Chang | Chang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 caused | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 caused | aux |
| 5 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 caused | iobj |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pain | amod |
| 8 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 caused | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 refuses | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 refuses | cc |
| 11 | refuses | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 caused | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 put | mark |
| 13 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 refuses | xcomp |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 put | obj |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 put | advmod |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 water | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 water | det |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 put | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | present · perfect | fellow Chang This | great pain | me | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Causer i=Theme pain=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | refuse | present | fellow Chang This not said here | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not put back | to-infinitive | fellow Chang This not said here | me | the water | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent i=Goal |
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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