The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 17
“If you like to fill the mortar with precious stones, you may do so.
Who acts: you · What happens: like, fill, do · To what, where: mortar
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 like | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 like | nsubj |
| 4 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 fill | mark |
| 6 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 like | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mortar | det |
| 8 | mortar | mortar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fill | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 stones | case |
| 10 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 stones | amod |
| 11 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fill | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 like | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 do | nsubj |
| 14 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | aux |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 do | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fill not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | the mortar | with precious stones | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent mortar=Patient with stone=Instrument | |||
| 3 | do in a quote | may | you | vn act-114-1 «NP 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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