The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 14
But there was no one to wind it up, and he was too weak to do this himself.
Who acts: one, wind, Emperor · What happens: be, wind, do · To what, where: this
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, wind, Emperor), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 was | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 one | det |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 wind | mark |
| 7 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 one | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 wind | nsubj |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 wind | compound |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 weak | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 weak | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 weak | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 weak | cop |
| 14 | too | too | ADV | _ | 15 weak | advmod |
| 15 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 was | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 do | mark |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 weak | advcl |
| 18 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 do | obj |
| 19 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 do | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | no one and wind | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wind | wind | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | Emperor | weak property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | Emperor not said here | this | Emperor obl:unmarked | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |
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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