The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 9
Then said Sin: “I would give a good deal to be like you.”
Who acts: Sin · What happens: say, give, be · To what, where: good deal · 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 (Sin), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 said | advmod |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Sin | Sin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 give | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 give | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 give | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 give | aux |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 deal | det |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 deal | amod |
| 11 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 you | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 you | cop |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 you | case |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 deal | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 give | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Sin | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | give in a quote | would | Sin | a good deal | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | to-infinitive | Sin not said here | like you | 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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