The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 58
Whatever be the value of a diamond statue, it is worth the satisfaction of having you mine?
Who acts: value · What happens: be, have, value · To what, where: Whatever, you, diamond statue
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 (value), 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 | Whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 worth | advcl |
| 2 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Whatever | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 value | det |
| 4 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Whatever | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 statue | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 statue | det |
| 7 | diamond | diamond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 statue | amod |
| 8 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 value | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Whatever | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 worth | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 worth | cop |
| 12 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 satisfaction | det |
| 14 | satisfaction | satisfaction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 worth | obj |
| 15 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 16 having | mark |
| 16 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 worth | advcl |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 having | obj |
| 18 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 having | obj |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 worth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | infinitive | the value of a diamond statue | Whatever | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | value | the satisfaction obj; worth property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | gerund | value not said here | you | mine obj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | value | a diamond statue | nom value «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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