The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 45
On this parrot my life depends, for if this parrot is killed I must die.
Who acts: life, I · What happens: depend, kill, die · To what, where: parrot
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (life, I), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 parrot | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 parrot | det |
| 3 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 depends | obl |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 life | nmod:poss |
| 5 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 depends | nsubj |
| 6 | depends | depend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 killed | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 killed | mark |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 killed | mark |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 parrot | det |
| 11 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 killed | aux:pass |
| 13 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 depends | conj |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 die | nsubj |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 die | aux |
| 16 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 killed | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 depends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depend | present | my life | on this parrot | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on parrot=Theme | ||||
| 2 | kill a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | this parrot | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | die | must | I | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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