The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 15
I cannot live many more years, for I am already old, and it would be a great satisfaction for me to know that you are happily married before the time comes for me to die.
Who acts: I, child, me, old · What happens: not live, be, know, marry, come, die · To what, where: great satisfaction, 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 (I, child, me, old), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 live | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 live | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 live | advmod |
| 4 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 years | amod |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 years | amod |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 live | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 old | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 old | case |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 old | nsubj |
| 11 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 old | cop |
| 12 | already | already | ADV | _ | 13 old | advmod |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 comes | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 satisfaction | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 satisfaction | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 satisfaction | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 satisfaction | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 satisfaction | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 satisfaction | det |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 satisfaction | amod |
| 21 | satisfaction | satisfaction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 comes | nsubj |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 know | mark |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 know | nsubj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 know | mark |
| 25 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 satisfaction | acl |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 married | mark |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 married | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 married | aux:pass |
| 29 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 30 married | advmod |
| 30 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 know | ccomp |
| 31 | before | before | ADP | _ | 33 time | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 time | det |
| 33 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 married | obl |
| 34 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 live | parataxis |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 me | case |
| 36 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 comes | obl |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 die | mark |
| 38 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 comes | xcomp |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not live | can | I | year | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | I | old property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | would | child | a great satisfaction | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | know | to-infinitive | me | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | marry | present · passive | you | time | happily property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 6 | come | present | old | for me | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | die | to-infinitive | old not said here | 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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