The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 66
It is my desire that you attain high rank, but this you cannot reach by remaining at court.
Who acts: honor, you, this · What happens: be, attain, not reach, remain · To what, where: desire, court
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 (honor, you, this), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 desire | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 desire | cop |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 desire | nmod:poss |
| 4 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 attain | obj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 attain | nsubj |
| 7 | attain | attain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 desire | acl:relcl |
| 8 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 rank | amod |
| 9 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 attain | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 reach | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 reach | cc |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 reach | nsubj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 reach | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 reach | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 reach | advmod |
| 16 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 desire | parataxis |
| 17 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 18 remaining | mark |
| 18 | remaining | remain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 reach | advcl |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 court | case |
| 20 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 remaining | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 desire | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | honor | my desire | my nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | attain | present | you | my desire | high rank obj | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent that=Beneficiary rank=Theme | |||
| 3 | not reach | can | this | you nsubj | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | remain | gerund | this not said here | court | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at court=Location |
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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