The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 62
“You have beaten me and scolded me all my life, and now you are glad to accept my good things.
Who acts: You · What happens: beat, scold, be, accept · To what, where: Juan, good things
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 (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 beaten | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 beaten | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 beaten | aux |
| 4 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 beaten | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 scolded | cc |
| 7 | scolded | scold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 beaten | conj |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 scolded | obj |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 life | det:predet |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 life | nmod:poss |
| 11 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 scolded | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 glad | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 glad | cc |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 glad | advmod |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 glad | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 glad | cop |
| 17 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 scolded | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 accept | mark |
| 19 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 glad | advcl |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 things | nmod:poss |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 things | amod |
| 22 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 accept | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 beaten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat in a quote | present · perfect | You | Juan | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | scold in a quote | past | You not said here | Juan | my life obl:unmarked | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | you | now | glad property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | accept in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | my good things | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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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