The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 112
It is our practice to stand by one another in all things, and to make our lives as pleasant as possible.”
Who acts: company · What happens: be, stand, make · To what, where: practice, things, lives
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (company), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 practice | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 practice | cop |
| 3 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 practice | nmod:poss |
| 4 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 stand | mark |
| 6 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 practice | acl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 one | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 stand | obl |
| 9 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 one | fixed |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 things | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 things | det |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stand | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 make | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 make | cc |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 make | mark |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 stand | conj |
| 17 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 lives | nmod:poss |
| 18 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 make | obj |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | _ | 20 pleasant | advmod |
| 20 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 make | xcomp |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 possible | mark |
| 22 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 pleasant | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 practice | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 practice | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | company | our practice | our nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | stand | to-infinitive | all things | by one | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by one=Location | ||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | our lives | pleasant property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset life=Product |
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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