The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 73
“My only chance now is that the cook will know me,” thought Sin.
Who acts: only chance, Sin, My · What happens: be, think, chance · 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 (only chance, Sin, My), 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 | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 chance | nmod:poss |
| 3 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 chance | amod |
| 4 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 know | nsubj |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 know | advmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 know | cop |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 know | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cook | det |
| 9 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 know | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 know | aux |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 thought | ccomp |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 know | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 15 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | Sin | Sin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 thought | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | My only chance | now | the cook nsubj; me obj; know property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Sin | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | chance in a quote | My | nom chance «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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