The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 58

To be a hermit one must obey strict rules; he must eat only fruit and berries, and cut himself off from the ways of the world, so that he may become pure and free from unworthy desire.

Who acts: hermit one, life · What happens: be, obey, eat, cut off, become · To what, where: hermit one, strict rules, fruit, life, ways, unworthy desire

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 (hermit one, 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	To	to	PART	_	5 one	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 one	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 one	det
4	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 one	compound
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 obey	nsubj
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 obey	aux
7	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	strict	strict	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 rules	amod
9	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 obey	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 eat	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 eat	nsubj
12	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 eat	aux
13	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 obey	parataxis
14	only	only	ADV	_	15 fruit	advmod
15	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 eat	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 berries	cc
17	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 fruit	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 cut	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 cut	cc
20	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 eat	parataxis
21	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 cut	obj
22	off	off	ADP	_	20 cut	compound:prt
23	from	from	ADP	_	25 ways	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 ways	det
25	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 cut	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 world	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 world	det
28	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 ways	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 become	punct
30	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	34 become	mark
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 so	fixed
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 become	nsubj
33	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 become	aux
34	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 eat	conj
35	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 become	xcomp
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 free	cc
37	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 pure	conj
38	from	from	ADP	_	40 desire	case
39	unworthy	unworthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 desire	amod
40	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 become	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 obey	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	to-infinitive		a hermit one			tree rules
2	obey	must	a hermit one	strict rules			vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme
3	eat	must	life	fruit and berries			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient
4	cut off	past		life	the ways of the world		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme from way=Initial_Location
5	become	may	life		unworthy desire	pure property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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 58

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 58