The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 42
I am very comfortable here, with all I want to eat and drink, and plenty of money to spend, so why should I not enjoy life for hundreds of years without sickness or worry?”
Who acts: I, plenty · What happens: be, want, eat, drink, spend, not enjoy · To what, where: life
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, plenty), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 comfortable | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 comfortable | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 comfortable | advmod |
| 4 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 comfortable | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 all | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 all | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 comfortable | conj |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 want | nsubj |
| 10 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 all | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 eat | mark |
| 12 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 want | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 drink | cc |
| 14 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 eat | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 spend | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 spend | cc |
| 17 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 spend | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 money | case |
| 19 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 plenty | nmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 spend | mark |
| 21 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 comfortable | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 enjoy | punct |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 enjoy | advmod |
| 24 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 enjoy | advmod |
| 25 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 enjoy | aux |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 enjoy | nsubj |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 enjoy | advmod |
| 28 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 spend | conj |
| 29 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 enjoy | obj |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 hundreds | case |
| 31 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 enjoy | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 years | case |
| 33 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 hundreds | nmod |
| 34 | without | without | ADP | _ | 35 sickness | case |
| 35 | sickness | sickness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 spend | obl |
| 36 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 37 worry | cc |
| 37 | worry | worry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sickness | conj |
| 38 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 comfortable | punct |
| 39 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 comfortable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | here | comfortable property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | want | present | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | eat not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | drink | infinitive | I not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | spend | to-infinitive | plenty of money | without sickness or worry | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | not enjoy | should | I | life | for hundreds of years | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer life=Stimulus for hundred=Attribute |
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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