The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 110
You have the boiling water, but you do not seem to think of the rice.”
Who acts: You · What happens: have, boil, not seem, think · To what, where: boiling water
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 23. 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 water | det |
| 4 | boiling | boil | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 water | amod |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 seem | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 seem | cc |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 seem | nsubj |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 seem | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 seem | advmod |
| 11 | seem | seem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 have | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 think | mark |
| 13 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 seem | xcomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 rice | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rice | det |
| 16 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 think | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | You | the boiling water | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | ||||
| 2 | boil | gerund | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | not seem | present · do-support | you | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | you not said here | of the rice | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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