The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 99
One day no one else was at hand, so he cut off mine, and he will surely cut off yours on one pretense or another.
Who acts: One day, Rasalu · What happens: be, cut off · To what, where: hand, mine, yours, one pretense
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 (One day, Rasalu), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hand | nsubj |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 one | det |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hand | nsubj |
| 5 | else | else | ADV | _ | 4 one | advmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hand | cop |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 hand | case |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cut | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 cut | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 cut | nsubj |
| 12 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hand | parataxis |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 cut | compound:prt |
| 14 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 cut | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 cut | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 cut | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 cut | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 cut | aux |
| 19 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 20 cut | advmod |
| 20 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 cut | advcl |
| 21 | off | off | ADP | _ | 22 yours | case |
| 22 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 cut | obl |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 pretense | case |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 pretense | nummod |
| 25 | pretense | pretense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cut | obl |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 another | cc |
| 27 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 pretense | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 hand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | One day | hand | no one nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cut off | past | Rasalu | mine | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector my=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | cut off | future | Rasalu | yours | one pretense | surely property | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector your=Eventuality |
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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