The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 86

“There is no one here, nor far nor near, Save this breathless corpse so cold and grim; Would God he might come to life again, ’Twould be less lonely to talk to him.”

Who acts: God · What happens: be, come, talk · To what, where: life, God

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God), 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	_	13 Save	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 is	expl
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 Save	cop
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 one	det
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 is	nsubj
6	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 is	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 far	punct
8	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	9 far	cc
9	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 is	advmod
10	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	11 near	cc
11	near	near	ADV	_	9 far	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Save	punct
13	Save	save	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 corpse	det
15	breathless	breathless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 corpse	amod
16	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Save	obj
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 cold	advmod
18	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Save	advcl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 grim	cc
20	grim	grim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 cold	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 come	punct
22	Would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 come	aux
23	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 come	nsubj
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 come	nsubj
25	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 come	aux
26	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 Save	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 life	case
28	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 come	obl
29	again	again	ADV	_	26 come	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 lonely	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	35 lonely	punct
32	Twould	twould	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 lonely	aux
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 lonely	cop
34	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	35 lonely	advmod
35	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 come	parataxis
36	to	to	PART	_	37 talk	mark
37	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 lonely	advcl
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 him	case
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 talk	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 Save	punct
41	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 Save	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present					this breathless corpse obj; save property	tree rules
2	come in a quote	might	God		life	again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to life=Initial_Location
3	is in a quote						less, lonely property	tree rules
4	talk in a quote	to-infinitive		God				vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent

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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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 86