The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 14
“Dear one, you know that I love you quite as much as though you were my real child, and that there is nothing I would not do to make you happy.
Who acts: you, man, nothing · What happens: know, love, be, not do, make · To what, where: Dear one, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, man, nothing), 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 | _ | 3 one | punct |
| 2 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 one | amod |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 know | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 one | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 know | nsubj |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 love | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 love | nsubj |
| 9 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | ccomp |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 love | obj |
| 11 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 13 much | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 much | advmod |
| 13 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 love | obj |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 20 child | case |
| 15 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 14 as | fixed |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 child | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 child | cop |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 child | nmod:poss |
| 19 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 child | amod |
| 20 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 much | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 is | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 is | cc |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 is | mark |
| 24 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 25 is | expl |
| 25 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 love | parataxis |
| 26 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 25 is | nsubj |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 do | nsubj |
| 28 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 do | aux |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 do | advmod |
| 30 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 nothing | acl:relcl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 make | mark |
| 32 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 do | advcl |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 make | obj |
| 34 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 make | xcomp |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | you | Dear one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | love in a quote | present | man | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | you | as my real child; my nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be in a quote | present | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not do in a quote | would | man | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | man not said here | you | happy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=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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