The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 10
For this reason Moro women fear even to sail near the island of Bongos.
Who acts: Moro women · What happens: fear, sail · To what, where: island · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moro women), 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 | _ | 3 reason | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 reason | det |
| 3 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fear | obl |
| 4 | Moro | Moro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 women | compound |
| 5 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fear | nsubj |
| 6 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | even | even | ADV | _ | 9 sail | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 sail | mark |
| 9 | sail | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 fear | ccomp |
| 10 | near | near | ADP | _ | 12 island | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 island | det |
| 12 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sail | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Bongos | case |
| 14 | Bongos | bongo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 island | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | present | Moro women | for this reason | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | sail | to-infinitive | the island of Bongos | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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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