The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 4
You have many legs and no sense, while I have four legs and am known to be the wisest inhabitant of the forest.
Who acts: You, I · What happens: have, know, be · To what, where: many legs, four legs, wisest inhabitant
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 (You, I), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 legs | amod |
| 4 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sense | cc |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 sense | det |
| 7 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 legs | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 have | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | parataxis |
| 12 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 legs | nummod |
| 13 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 have | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 known | cc |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 known | aux:pass |
| 16 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 have | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 inhabitant | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 inhabitant | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 inhabitant | det |
| 20 | wisest | wise | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 inhabitant | amod |
| 21 | inhabitant | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 known | xcomp |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 forest | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 forest | det |
| 24 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 inhabitant | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | You | many legs and no sense | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | present | I | four legs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | ||||
| 3 | know | present · passive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | I not said here | the wisest inhabitant | of the forest | tree rules |
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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