The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 27, sentence 4
There is no living or growing thing there that is not carefully watched, not even a blade of grass.”
Who acts: living · What happens: be, grow, thing, not watch · To what, where: growing thing
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (living), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 living | det |
| 4 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thing | nsubj |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 growing | cc |
| 6 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 thing | amod |
| 7 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | ccomp |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 watched | expl |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 watched | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 watched | aux:pass |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 watched | advmod |
| 12 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 13 watched | advmod |
| 13 | watched | watch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 thing | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 blade | punct |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 blade | advmod |
| 16 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 blade | advmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 blade | det |
| 18 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 watched | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 grass | case |
| 20 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 blade | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | grow | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | thing | no living | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | not watch | present · passive | growing thing | there | a blade of grass conj; carefully property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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