The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 30
“Will you take it on your shoulder or on your head?”
Who acts: you · What happens: take · To what, where: chance, shoulder
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 | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 2 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 take | nsubj |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 take | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 shoulder | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 8 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obl |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 head | cc |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 head | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 head | nmod:poss |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shoulder | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | future | you | chance | your shoulder or your head | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on shoulder=Destination |
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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