The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 116
And be sure that any selfish desire you may have, even if it be granted, will never bring you happiness.”
Who acts: you, selfish · What happens: be, desire, have, grant, not bring · To what, where: thing, happiness, you
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 (you, selfish), 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 | _ | 3 sure | cc |
| 2 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sure | cop |
| 3 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 desire | mark |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 selfish | det |
| 6 | selfish | selfish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 desire | nsubj |
| 7 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 bring | advcl |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 have | nsubj |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 have | aux |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 desire | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 granted | punct |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 16 granted | advmod |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 granted | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 granted | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 granted | aux:pass |
| 16 | granted | grant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 have | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 desire | punct |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 bring | aux |
| 19 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 20 bring | advmod |
| 20 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sure | ccomp |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 bring | obj |
| 22 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bring | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | imperative | you not said here | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | desire | present | any selfish | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have | may | you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | grant a condition, not said to happen | infinitive · passive | thing | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not bring | future | you not said here | happiness | you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination happiness=Theme |
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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