The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 49
“You cannot go on, for I am guard of this road and no one can pass.”
Who acts: You, snake, one · What happens: not go on, be, pass
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 (You, snake, one), 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 | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 go | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 go | advmod |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADV | _ | 5 go | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 guard | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 guard | case |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 guard | nsubj |
| 10 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 guard | cop |
| 11 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 road | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 road | det |
| 14 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 guard | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 pass | cc |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 one | det |
| 17 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pass | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 pass | aux |
| 19 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 go | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go on in a quote | can | You | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the snake = snake | for guard; of this road | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pass in a quote | can | no one | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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