The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 89
His only source of affliction was, that he was childless.
Who acts: only source · What happens: be
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 source), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 source | nmod:poss |
| 2 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 source | amod |
| 3 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 childless | nsubj:outer |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 affliction | case |
| 5 | affliction | affliction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 source | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 childless | cop |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 childless | punct |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 childless | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 childless | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 childless | cop |
| 11 | childless | childless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 childless | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Bussorah's only source of affliction | Bussorah nsubj; childless property | tree rules |
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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