The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 90
“‘I live near the River Ganges, eating no flesh and doing many things by way of penance.
Who acts: Cat · What happens: live, eat, do · To what, where: River Ganges, flesh, many things
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cat), 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 | _ | 4 live | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 live | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 live | nsubj |
| 4 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | near | near | ADP | _ | 8 Ganges | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Ganges | det |
| 7 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Ganges | compound |
| 8 | Ganges | Ganges | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 live | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 eating | punct |
| 10 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 live | advcl |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 flesh | det |
| 12 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 eating | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 doing | cc |
| 14 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 eating | conj |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 things | amod |
| 16 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 doing | obj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 way | case |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 doing | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 penance | case |
| 20 | penance | penance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 way | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live in a quote | present | Cat | the River Ganges | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near ganges=Location | ||||
| 2 | eat in a quote | gerund | Cat not said here | no flesh | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flesh=Patient | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | gerund | Cat not said here | many things | by way of penance | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
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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