The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 114
And even your desire for death was not real, for when the fish was there to swallow you, you called on Jofuku to save you.
Who acts: desire, fish, you, your · What happens: not be, be, swallow, call, save, desire · To what, where: you, Jofuku · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (desire, fish, you, your), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 real | cc |
| 2 | even | even | ADV | _ | 4 desire | advmod |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 desire | nmod:poss |
| 4 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 real | nsubj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 death | case |
| 6 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 desire | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 real | cop |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 real | advmod |
| 9 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 real | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 there | case |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 there | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fish | det |
| 14 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 there | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 there | cop |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 real | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 swallow | mark |
| 18 | swallow | swallow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 there | advcl |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 swallow | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 called | punct |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 called | nsubj |
| 22 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 real | parataxis |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 Jofuku | case |
| 24 | Jofuku | Jofuku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 called | obl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 save | mark |
| 26 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 called | advcl |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 save | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 real | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | your desire for death | real property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the fish | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | swallow | to-infinitive | the fish not said here | you | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | ||||
| 4 | call | past | you | Jofuku | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | save | to-infinitive | you not said here | you | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 6 | desire | your | for death | nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |
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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