The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 71
Souls so noble, slain for me, Were not, and will never be!
What happens: not be
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: 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 | Souls | soul | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 noble | nsubj |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 noble | advmod |
| 3 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 slain | punct |
| 5 | slain | slain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 noble | conj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 slain | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 not | punct |
| 9 | Were | Were | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 not | nsubj |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 noble | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 be | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 be | cc |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 be | aux |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 be | advmod |
| 15 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 noble | conj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 noble | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not be | future | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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