The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 94
He would pray to Jofuku to take him away from it.
Who acts: life · What happens: pray, take away · To what, where: Jofuku, life, country
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pray | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 pray | aux |
| 3 | pray | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Jofuku | case |
| 5 | Jofuku | Jofuku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 pray | obl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 take | mark |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 pray | advcl |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 take | obj |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 take | advmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 take | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pray | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | would | life | Jofuku | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | take away | to-infinitive | life not said here | life | country | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Theme from it=Initial_Location |
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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