The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 84
His only idea was to eat, sleep, be merry and cast away all care.
Who acts: only idea · What happens: be, cast away · To what, where: care
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 (only idea), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 idea | nmod:poss |
| 2 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 idea | amod |
| 3 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eat | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 eat | cop |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 eat | mark |
| 6 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sleep | punct |
| 8 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eat | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 merry | punct |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 merry | cop |
| 11 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 eat | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cast | cc |
| 13 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 merry | conj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 cast | advmod |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 care | det |
| 16 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cast | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | first's only idea | sleep obj; eat property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | infinitive | merry property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | cast away | present | all care | away property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Product |
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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