The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 18
For generations has this old well been our home, and it is not for you to say that we must go.
Who acts: home, you, we · What happens: have, be, not be, say, go · To what, where: old, home · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (home, you, we), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 generations | case |
| 2 | generations | generation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 has | obl |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 old | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 home | advmod |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 home | cop |
| 8 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 home | nmod:poss |
| 9 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 old | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 say | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 say | cc |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 you | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 you | cop |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 you | advmod |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 you | case |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 say | nsubj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 say | mark |
| 18 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 has | parataxis |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 go | mark |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 go | nsubj |
| 21 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 go | aux |
| 22 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 say | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | this old | for generations | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent old=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | participle | our home | our nmod:poss; well property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not is | present | home | for you | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | go | must | we | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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