The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 21
“Why, in one minute I can swallow you all and you will make only the very smallest part of a mouthful for me.
Who acts: one minute, you · What happens: swallow, make · To what, where: you, smallest part
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 (one minute, 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 | _ | 9 swallow | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 swallow | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 minute | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 minute | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 minute | nummod |
| 6 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 swallow | nsubj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 swallow | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 swallow | aux |
| 9 | swallow | swallow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 swallow | obj |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 you | nmod:unmarked |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 make | cc |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 make | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 make | aux |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 swallow | conj |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 part | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 part | det |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 smallest | advmod |
| 19 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 part | amod |
| 20 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 mouthful | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 mouthful | det |
| 23 | mouthful | mouthful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 part | nmod |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 me | case |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 make | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 swallow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swallow in a quote | can | one minute | you | I nsubj | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | |||
| 2 | make in a quote | future | you | the smallest part of a mouthful | for the Mosquitoes = mosquito | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent part=Product for i=Beneficiary |
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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