The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 98
“Don’t you ever get tired of creeping over the ground?”
Who acts: you · What happens: do, not get, creep · To what, where: ground
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), 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 | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 get | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 get | nsubj |
| 5 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 get | advmod |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Do | advcl |
| 7 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 get | xcomp |
| 8 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 9 creeping | mark |
| 9 | creeping | creep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 tired | advcl |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 ground | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ground | det |
| 12 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 creeping | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not get in a quote | present | you | ever | tired property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | creep in a quote | gerund | you not said here | the ground | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over ground=Trajectory |
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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