The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 65
“Life without my boy is something I cannot bear to think of,” said he; “my service to the King is now ended.”
Who acts: Life, my · What happens: be, not bear, think, say, end, service · To what, where: something, service · 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 (Life, my), 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 something | punct |
| 2 | Life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 something | nsubj |
| 3 | without | without | ADP | _ | 5 boy | case |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 boy | nmod:poss |
| 5 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Life | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 something | cop |
| 7 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | root | root |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 bear | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 bear | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 bear | advmod |
| 11 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 something | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 think | mark |
| 13 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 bear | xcomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 think | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 something | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 something | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 something | conj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | nsubj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 service | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 service | punct |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 service | nmod:poss |
| 22 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 ended | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 King | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 King | det |
| 25 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 service | nmod |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 ended | aux:pass |
| 27 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 ended | advmod |
| 28 | ended | end | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 something | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 something | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 something | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Life without my boy | something | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not bear in a quote | can | life | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | to-infinitive | life not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | life | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | end in a quote | present · passive | my service to the King | now | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | service in a quote | my | to the King | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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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