The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 59
“You, Opulo, have always been a lazy man, and have been too fond of good living.
Who acts: You · What happens: be · To what, where: lazy man
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 (You), 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 man | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 man | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Opulo | punct |
| 4 | Opulo | Opulo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 You | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 You | punct |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 man | aux |
| 7 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 11 man | advmod |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 man | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fond | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 fond | cc |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 fond | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 fond | cop |
| 16 | too | too | ADV | _ | 17 fond | advmod |
| 17 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 living | case |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 living | amod |
| 20 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fond | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present · perfect | You | a lazy man | always property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | present · perfect | You not said here | of good living; fond property | 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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