The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 55
“For a long while I lived happily in the shadow of his arm, but on the third day he will die, and therefore do I shed these bitter tears.”
Who acts: Fortune, King · What happens: live, die, do, shed, shadow · To what, where: shadow, bitter tears, arm · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Fortune, King), 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 | _ | 4 long | punct |
| 2 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 long | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 long | det |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 lived | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 lived | nsubj |
| 7 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 long | advcl |
| 8 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 7 lived | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 shadow | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 shadow | det |
| 11 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 arm | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 arm | nmod:poss |
| 14 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shadow | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 die | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 die | cc |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 day | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 day | det |
| 19 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 day | amod |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 die | obl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 die | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 die | aux |
| 23 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 long | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 do | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 do | cc |
| 26 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 27 do | advmod |
| 27 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 long | conj |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 shed | nsubj |
| 29 | shed | shed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 do | ccomp |
| 30 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 32 tears | det |
| 31 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 tears | amod |
| 32 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 shed | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 long | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live in a quote | past | the Fortune = fortune | the shadow of King's arm | happily property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shadow=Location | |||
| 2 | die in a quote | future | King | day | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present | therefore property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | shed in a quote | past | the Fortune = fortune | this bitter tears | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tear=Source | ||||
| 6 | shadow in a quote | King's arm | nom shadow «state 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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