The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 32
“Such tenderness for those who are dependent upon you makes me proud to be your friend.”
Who acts: Such tenderness · What happens: be, make · To what, where: fur, friend
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 (Such tenderness), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 makes | punct |
| 2 | Such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tenderness | amod |
| 3 | tenderness | tenderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 makes | nsubj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 those | case |
| 5 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 tenderness | nmod |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 dependent | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 dependent | cop |
| 8 | dependent | dependent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 those | acl:relcl |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 you | case |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 dependent | obl |
| 11 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 makes | obj |
| 13 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 makes | xcomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 friend | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 friend | cop |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 friend | nmod:poss |
| 17 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 proud | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 makes | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | upon you; who nsubj; dependent property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make in a quote | present | Such tenderness for those | fur | proud property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product | |||
| 3 | is a in a quote | to-infinitive | Such tenderness for those not said here | your friend | your nmod:poss | 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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