The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 93
Having my fun and my fling, Fighting my foes like a brave, Living my life with a swing.
Who acts: Having, my · What happens: have, fight, live, fling · To what, where: fun, foes, life
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 (Having, 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 | Having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 Fighting | csubj |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 fun | nmod:poss |
| 3 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Having | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 fling | cc |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 fling | nmod:poss |
| 6 | fling | fling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fun | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Fighting | punct |
| 8 | Fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 foes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | foes | foe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Fighting | obj |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 brave | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 brave | det |
| 13 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Fighting | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Living | punct |
| 15 | Living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 Fighting | conj |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 life | nmod:poss |
| 17 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Living | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 swing | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 swing | det |
| 20 | swing | swing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Living | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 Fighting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | my fun and my fling | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Patient | |||||
| 2 | fight | gerund | Having | my foes | like a brave | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foe=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | live | gerund | Having not said here | my life | with a swing | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location | |||
| 4 | fling | my | nom fling «act intransitive»: poss=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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