The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 128

And although if the fish in this pond are all captured there would be none left for me to subsist upon, it breaks my heart to think of the fate that is in store for them.

Who acts: me, few, that · What happens: capture, be, leave, subsist, break, think · To what, where: fish, none, heart, store

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 (me, few, that), 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	_	24 breaks	cc
2	although	although	SCONJ	_	11 captured	mark
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 captured	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fish	det
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 captured	nsubj:pass
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 pond	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 pond	det
8	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fish	nmod
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 captured	aux:pass
10	all	all	ADV	_	11 captured	advmod
11	captured	capture	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 breaks	advcl
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 captured	advmod
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 none	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 none	cop
15	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	11 captured	obj
16	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 none	acl
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 subsist	mark
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 subsist	nsubj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 subsist	mark
20	subsist	subsist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 left	advcl
21	upon	upon	ADP	_	20 subsist	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 captured	punct
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 breaks	nsubj
24	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 heart	nmod:poss
26	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 breaks	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 think	mark
28	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 breaks	advcl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 fate	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 fate	det
31	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 think	obl
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 store	nsubj
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 store	cop
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 store	case
35	store	store	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fate	conj
36	for	for	ADP	_	37 them	case
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 store	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 breaks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	capture a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		the fish in this pond	there	all property	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	is a	would		none			tree rules
3	leave	participle					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	subsist	to-infinitive	me				vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
5	break	present	few	my heart			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer heart=Patient
6	think speech: other	to-infinitive	few not said here			of the fate and store	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	present	that		store	for fish	tree rules

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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 128

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 128