The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 66
“Now, drink this,” he said to Wang Chih, “and it will give you the power of living once more in the past, as you desire.”
Who acts: Wang, Hare, bottle · What happens: drink, say, give, desire · To what, where: this, Wang, power · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Wang, Hare, bottle), 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 drink | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 drink | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 drink | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 drink | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 drink | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 drink | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Wang | case |
| 11 | Wang | Wang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 12 | Chih | Chih | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Wang | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 give | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 give | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 give | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 give | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 give | aux |
| 18 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 give | iobj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 power | det |
| 21 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 give | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 living | case |
| 23 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 power | nmod |
| 24 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 25 more | advmod |
| 25 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 give | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 past | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 past | det |
| 28 | past | past | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 more | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 desire | punct |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 desire | mark |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 desire | nsubj |
| 32 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 give | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 drink | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 drink | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink in a quote | imperative | Wang not said here | this | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Hare | Wang | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to wang=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | give in a quote | future | bottle | the power of living | Wang | tree rules | |||
| 4 | desire in a quote | present | Wang | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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