The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 57
A hermit’s life is a hard one and not suited to an idle man who is used to enjoy every possible comfort.
Who acts: life · What happens: be, not suit, use, enjoy · To what, where: hard one, idle man, possible comfort
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 (life), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 hermit | det |
| 2 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 life | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 hermit | case |
| 4 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 one | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 one | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 one | det |
| 7 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 one | amod |
| 8 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 suited | cc |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 suited | advmod |
| 11 | suited | suit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 one | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 man | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 14 | idle | idle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 suited | obl |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 used | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 used | aux:pass |
| 18 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 man | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 enjoy | mark |
| 20 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 used | xcomp |
| 21 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 comfort | det |
| 22 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 comfort | amod |
| 23 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 enjoy | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a hermit's life | a hard one | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not suit | participle | a hermit's life not said here | to a idle man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | use | present · passive | a idle man | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Theme clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | enjoy | to-infinitive | every possible comfort | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer comfort=Stimulus |
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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