The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 60
Do you think you could go barefoot and wear only one thin dress during the cold of winter?
Who acts: you · What happens: think, go, wear · To what, where: one thin dress · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 think | nsubj |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 go | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 go | aux |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 think | ccomp |
| 7 | barefoot | barefoot | ADV | _ | 6 go | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wear | cc |
| 9 | wear | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | conj |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 one | advmod |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 dress | nummod |
| 12 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 dress | amod |
| 13 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wear | obj |
| 14 | during | during | ADP | _ | 16 cold | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cold | det |
| 16 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wear | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 winter | case |
| 18 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cold | nmod |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present · do-support | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | could | you | barefoot property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wear | present | you not said here | one thin dress | during the cold of winter | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dress=Theme |
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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