The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 32
Guido told him that his living depended upon the collecting of faggots, and if he neglected this for a single day, he would be thrown into great difficulties.
Who acts: Guido, living, man · What happens: tell, depend, neglect, throw, live, collect · To what, where: man, this, great difficulties, faggots · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Guido, living, man), 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 | Guido | Guido | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | iobj |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 depended | mark |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 living | nmod:poss |
| 6 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 depended | nsubj |
| 7 | depended | depend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 told | ccomp |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 collecting | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 collecting | det |
| 10 | collecting | collecting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 depended | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 faggots | case |
| 12 | faggots | faggot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 collecting | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 neglected | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 neglected | cc |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 neglected | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 neglected | nsubj |
| 17 | neglected | neglect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 told | parataxis |
| 18 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 neglected | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 day | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 day | det |
| 21 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 day | amod |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 neglected | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 thrown | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 thrown | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 thrown | aux:pass |
| 27 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 neglected | conj |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 difficulties | case |
| 29 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 difficulties | amod |
| 30 | difficulties | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 thrown | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Guido | man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | depend | past | man's living | upon the collecting of faggots | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | neglect a condition, not said to happen | past | man | this | day | vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme | |||
| 4 | throw | would · passive | man | into great difficulties result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into difficulty=Result | ||||
| 5 | live | man | nom living «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | collect | faggots | nom collecting «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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