The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 98
Pity them that ask thy pity; who art thou to stint thy hoard, When the beauteous moon shines equal on the lowly and the lord!
Who acts: you, that, beauteous moon, thy · What happens: pity, ask, stint, shine, hoard · To what, where: others, pity, hoard, lowly
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 (you, that, beauteous moon, thy), 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 | Pity | pity | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Pity | obj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 ask | nsubj |
| 4 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Pity | parataxis |
| 5 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 pity | nmod:poss |
| 6 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ask | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 art | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 art | nsubj |
| 9 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Pity | parataxis |
| 10 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 art | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 stint | mark |
| 12 | stint | stint | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 art | xcomp |
| 13 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 hoard | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hoard | hoard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stint | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 shines | punct |
| 16 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 shines | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 moon | det |
| 18 | beauteous | beauteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 moon | amod |
| 19 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 shines | nsubj |
| 20 | shines | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Pity | parataxis |
| 21 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 shines | xcomp |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 lowly | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 lowly | det |
| 24 | lowly | lowly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 shines | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 lord | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 lord | det |
| 27 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lowly | conj |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pity | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pity | imperative | you not said here | others = other | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | present | that | thy pity | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pity=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | stint | to-infinitive | you not said here | thy hoard | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | shine | present | the beauteous moon | the lowly and the lord | equal property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on lowly=Location | |||
| 5 | pity | thy | nom pity «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | hoard | thy | nom hoard «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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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