The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 86
“‘Hard it is to conquer nature: if a dog were made a king, Mid the coronation trumpets, he would gnaw his sandal-string.’
Who acts: Mid, dog · What happens: be, make, gnaw · To what, where: dog, sandal string
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 (Mid, dog), 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 | _ | 7 conquer | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Hard | punct |
| 3 | Hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 conquer | advmod |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 Hard | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 conquer | cop |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 conquer | mark |
| 7 | conquer | conquer | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 conquer | obj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 made | mark |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 dog | det |
| 12 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 made | aux:pass |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 conquer | advcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Mid | punct |
| 18 | Mid | Mid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obl:agent |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 trumpets | det |
| 20 | coronation | coronation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 trumpets | compound |
| 21 | trumpets | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 Mid | flat |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 gnaw | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 gnaw | nsubj |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 gnaw | aux |
| 25 | gnaw | gnaw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 conquer | conj |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 string | nmod:poss |
| 27 | sandal | sandal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 string | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 sandal | punct |
| 29 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 gnaw | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 conquer | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 conquer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | nature obj; conquer property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past · passive | Mid | a dog | a king obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset subject=Beneficiary king=Product | |||
| 3 | gnaw in a quote | would | dog | dog's sandal string | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=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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