The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 99
“As I have found you here where lies my daily work,” said the old man, “I must look upon you as a child sent from Heaven.”
Who acts: old man, my · What happens: find, lie, say, look, send, work · To what, where: you, daily work, child, Heaven · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (old man, my), 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 | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 2 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 found | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 found | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 found | aux |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 said | advcl |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 found | obj |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 found | advmod |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 lies | advmod |
| 9 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 found | advcl |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 work | nmod:poss |
| 11 | daily | daily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 work | amod |
| 12 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lies | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 man | amod |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 look | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 look | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 look | nsubj |
| 22 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 look | aux |
| 23 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | conj |
| 24 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 you | case |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 look | obl |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 child | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 child | det |
| 28 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 look | obl |
| 29 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 child | acl |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 Heaven | case |
| 31 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 sent | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find in a quote | present · perfect | the old man = man | you | here | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic | |||
| 2 | lie in a quote | present | the old man = man not said here | my daily work | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location work=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the old man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | look in a quote | must | the old man = man | upon you; as a child | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon you=Theme | ||||
| 5 | send in a quote | participle | a child not said here | Heaven | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from heaven=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | work in a quote | my | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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