The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 53
But the question is, do you want to go back there?”
Who acts: question · What happens: be, go back
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 (question), 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 | _ | 8 want | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 question | det |
| 3 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 want | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 want | cop |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 is | punct |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 want | aux |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 want | nsubj |
| 8 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 go | mark |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 want | xcomp |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 go | advmod |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 go | advmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 want | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · do-support | the question | you nsubj; want property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go back not said to happen | to-infinitive | the question not said here | there | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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