The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 132
“You care nothing that the people are thirsty and in need of drink.”
Who acts: You · What happens: care, be, need · To what, where: nothing, drink
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 care | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 care | nsubj |
| 3 | care | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 care | obj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 thirsty | nsubj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 people | det |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 thirsty | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 thirsty | cop |
| 9 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 nothing | acl:relcl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 need | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 need | case |
| 12 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thirsty | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 drink | case |
| 14 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 need | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 care | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 care | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | care in a quote | present | You | nothing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the people nsubj; need of drink conj; thirsty property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | need in a quote | drink | nom need «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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