The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 19
“Had I known how small a job you wanted me to do, I would not have assembled so many of my brethren.”
Who acts: Rasalu, you · What happens: know, want, do, not assemble · To what, where: Rasalu, many
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 (Rasalu, you), 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 | _ | 4 known | punct |
| 2 | Had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 known | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 known | nsubj |
| 4 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 small | advmod |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 known | xcomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 job | det |
| 8 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 small | nsubj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 wanted | nsubj |
| 10 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 job | acl:relcl |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 wanted | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 do | mark |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wanted | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 assembled | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 assembled | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 assembled | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 assembled | advmod |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 assembled | aux |
| 19 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 known | parataxis |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 many | advmod |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 assembled | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 brethren | case |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 brethren | nmod:poss |
| 24 | brethren | brethren | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 many | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 assembled | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | past · perfect | Rasalu | small property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | want in a quote | past | you | Rasalu | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Rasalu not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not assemble in a quote | would · perfect | Rasalu | many of my brethren | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent many=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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