The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 23
This story shows the strength of true friendship, and that when the desire to help is there, a way to do so will be found.
Who acts: story, desire · What happens: show, help, be, do, find · To what, where: strength
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, desire), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | nsubj |
| 3 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 strength | det |
| 5 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 friendship | case |
| 7 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 friendship | amod |
| 8 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 strength | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 when | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 when | cc |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 when | nsubj |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 there | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 desire | det |
| 14 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 there | nsubj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 help | mark |
| 16 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 desire | acl |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 there | cop |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 shows | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 way | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 way | det |
| 21 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 do | mark |
| 23 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 way | acl |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 found | advmod |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 found | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 found | aux:pass |
| 27 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 do | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | this story | the strength of true friendship | a way parataxis | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent strength=Recipient | |||
| 2 | help | to-infinitive | the desire not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | the desire | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | this story not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | find | future · passive | this story not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF» |
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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