The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 90
For she has been born in an evil moment, and has brought her father ill luck!”
What happens: bear, bring · To what, where: woman, father
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: 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 5 born | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 born | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 born | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 born | aux:pass |
| 5 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 moment | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 moment | det |
| 8 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 moment | amod |
| 9 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 born | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 brought | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 brought | cc |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 brought | aux |
| 13 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 born | conj |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 father | nmod:poss |
| 15 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brought | obj |
| 16 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 luck | amod |
| 17 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 father | conj |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 father | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | present · perfect · passive | woman | moment | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bring | present · perfect | woman's father and ill luck | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument father=Destination |
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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