The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 83
No one could even make himself ill, try as hard as he might; he couldn’t even raise a corn on his toe.
Who acts: one, Jofuku · What happens: make, try, not raise · To what, where: Jofuku, corn, toe
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 (one, Jofuku), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 make | aux |
| 4 | even | even | ADV | _ | 5 make | advmod |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 make | obj |
| 7 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 make | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 try | punct |
| 9 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 make | conj |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 hard | advmod |
| 11 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 try | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 might | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 might | nsubj |
| 14 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 hard | advcl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 raise | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 raise | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 raise | aux |
| 18 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 raise | advmod |
| 19 | even | even | ADV | _ | 20 raise | advmod |
| 20 | raise | raise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 make | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 corn | det |
| 22 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 raise | obj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 toe | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 toe | nmod:poss |
| 25 | toe | toe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 raise | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | could | no one | Jofuku | ill property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset himself=Product | |||
| 2 | try | infinitive | no one not said here | hard property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | not raise | could | Jofuku | a corn | Jofuku's toe | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent corn=Theme on toe=Destination |
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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