The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 55
You expected to have found something more precious than me, and I question not but that you now repent having taken so much trouble.
Who acts: You, I · What happens: expect, find, not question, repent, take · To what, where: something, much trouble · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 expected | nsubj |
| 2 | expected | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 found | mark |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 found | aux |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 expected | xcomp |
| 6 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 found | obj |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 precious | advmod |
| 8 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 found | xcomp |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 me | case |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 precious | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 question | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 question | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 question | nsubj |
| 14 | question | question | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 expected | parataxis |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 question | advmod |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 taken | cc |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 repent | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 repent | nsubj |
| 19 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 repent | advmod |
| 20 | repent | repent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 taken | advcl |
| 21 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 taken | aux |
| 22 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 question | ccomp |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 much | advmod |
| 24 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 trouble | amod |
| 25 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 taken | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 expected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect | past | You | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find not said to happen | to-infinitive · perfect | You not said here | something | precious property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic | |||
| 3 | not question speech: other | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | repent | present | you | now | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | take | gerund · perfect | much trouble | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Theme |
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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