The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 40
Probably the only reason for this was because he didn’t have to earn his living, and so had very little to occupy his time.
Who acts: only reason, man · What happens: not be, earn, have, occupy, live · To what, where: living, little
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 (only reason, man), 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 | Probably | probably | ADV | _ | 12 have | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 reason | det |
| 3 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 reason | amod |
| 4 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | nsubj:outer |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 this | case |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 reason | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 have | cop |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 have | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 have | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 have | aux |
| 11 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 have | advmod |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 earn | mark |
| 14 | earn | earn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 have | xcomp |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 living | nmod:poss |
| 16 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 earn | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 had | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 had | cc |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 had | advmod |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 have | parataxis |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 little | advmod |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 had | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 occupy | mark |
| 24 | occupy | occupy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 little | acl |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 time | nmod:poss |
| 26 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 occupy | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past · do-support | the only reason for this | man nsubj; have, probably property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | earn | to-infinitive | the only reason for this not said here | man's living | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent living=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | past | little | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Patient | |||||
| 4 | occupy | to-infinitive | time | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | live | man | nom living «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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