The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 92
“On earth I was even as thou, My turban awry like a king, My head with the highest, I trow.
Who acts: headless corpse · What happens: be, trow · To what, where: earth
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 (headless corpse), 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 | _ | 24 trow | punct |
| 2 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 earth | case |
| 3 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 trow | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 thou | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 thou | cop |
| 6 | even | even | ADV | _ | 8 thou | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 thou | case |
| 8 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 earth | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 turban | punct |
| 10 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 turban | nmod:poss |
| 11 | turban | turban | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thou | conj |
| 12 | awry | awry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 turban | amod |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 king | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 awry | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 head | punct |
| 17 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 head | nmod:poss |
| 18 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turban | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 highest | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 highest | det |
| 21 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 head | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 earth | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 trow | nsubj |
| 24 | trow | trow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 trow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | the headless corpse = corpse | as thou; My turban and My head with the highest conj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | trow in a quote | present | the headless corpse = corpse | earth | tree rules |
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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