The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 62
“But there is something else I will do for you, and that is to send you to the Island of Continual Life, where death is unknown.”
Who acts: Jofuku, that, death · What happens: be · To what, where: you
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 (Jofuku, that, death), 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 | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 is | cc |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 is | expl |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | cop |
| 5 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 is | nsubj |
| 6 | else | else | ADV | _ | 5 something | advmod |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 do | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | aux |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 you | case |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 do | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 send | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 send | cc |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 send | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 send | cop |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 send | mark |
| 17 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 do | conj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 send | iobj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Island | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Island | det |
| 21 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 send | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Life | case |
| 23 | Continual | Continual | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Life | compound |
| 24 | Life | Life | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Island | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 unknown | punct |
| 26 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 29 unknown | advmod |
| 27 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 unknown | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 unknown | cop |
| 29 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Island | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Jofuku | for you; do property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | that | you | to the Island of Continual Life; send property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | death | unknown 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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