The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 7
“This can easily be done, for if you wish I will carry you one by one to another pool.”
Who acts: you, Crane · What happens: do, wish, carry · To what, where: This, you
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Crane), 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 | _ | 6 done | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 done | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 done | aux |
| 4 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 6 done | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 done | aux:pass |
| 6 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 carry | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 carry | mark |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 wish | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 wish | nsubj |
| 11 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 carry | advcl |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 carry | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 carry | aux |
| 14 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 done | advcl |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 carry | obj |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 carry | obj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 one | case |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 one | nmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 pool | case |
| 20 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 pool | det |
| 21 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 one | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 done | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | can · passive | This | easily property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | wish a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | carry in a quote | future | the Crane = crane | you | one obj | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme you=Beneficiary one=Value |
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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