The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 94
And, now I am dead, Sins, heavy as lead, Will give me no rest in my grave!”
Who acts: I · What happens: be, give · To what, where: rest, me, grave
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 (I), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 dead | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dead | punct |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 dead | advmod |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 dead | nsubj |
| 5 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 dead | cop |
| 6 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 give | csubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Sins | punct |
| 8 | Sins | Sin | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 dead | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 heavy | punct |
| 10 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Sins | amod |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 lead | case |
| 12 | lead | lead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heavy | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dead | punct |
| 14 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 give | aux |
| 15 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 give | iobj |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 rest | det |
| 18 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 give | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 grave | case |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 grave | nmod:poss |
| 21 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rest | nmod |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 give | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | now | Sins obl; dead property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | give | future | no rest | me | my grave | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient rest=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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