The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 127
Now I love a dish of fish myself, and the few that I should take would make but little difference among so many.
Who acts: I, few · What happens: love, take, make · To what, where: dish, that
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 (I, few), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 love | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 love | nsubj |
| 3 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 dish | det |
| 5 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 love | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 fish | case |
| 7 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dish | nmod |
| 8 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 love | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 make | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 make | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 few | det |
| 12 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 make | nsubj |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 take | obj |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 take | nsubj |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 take | aux |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 few | ccomp |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 make | aux |
| 18 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Fin | 3 love | parataxis |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 difference | cc |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 difference | amod |
| 21 | difference | difference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 make | conj |
| 22 | among | among | ADP | _ | 24 many | case |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 many | advmod |
| 24 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 make | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 love | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | present | I | a dish of fish | now | myself obl | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dish=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | take | should | I | that | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | would | the few | among many; little difference conj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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