The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 72
But they could not afford pork very often; he generally had to be content with rice.
Who acts: wife, Wang · What happens: not afford, have, be · To what, where: pork
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 (wife, Wang), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 afford | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 afford | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 afford | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 afford | advmod |
| 5 | afford | afford | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | pork | pork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 afford | obj |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 often | advmod |
| 8 | often | often | ADV | _ | 5 afford | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 had | nsubj |
| 11 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 12 had | advmod |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 afford | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 content | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 content | cop |
| 15 | content | content | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 had | xcomp |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 rice | case |
| 17 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 content | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 afford | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not afford | could | wife | pork | often property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | past | Wang | generally property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | Wang not said here | with rice; content property | tree rules |
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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