The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 46
It has just been set alight, and my children will be baked alive; therefore I cannot rest!”
Who acts: I · What happens: set, bake, not rest · To what, where: chaupur, children
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 (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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 set | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 set | aux |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 set | advmod |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 set | aux:pass |
| 5 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | alight | alight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 set | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 baked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 baked | cc |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 children | nmod:poss |
| 10 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 baked | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 baked | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 baked | aux:pass |
| 13 | baked | bake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 set | conj |
| 14 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 baked | xcomp |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 rest | punct |
| 16 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 20 rest | advmod |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 rest | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 rest | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 rest | advmod |
| 20 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 set | conj |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 rest | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | present · perfect · passive | chaupur | alight property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | ||||
| 2 | bake | future · passive | my children | alive property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 3 | not rest | can | I | therefore property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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