Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Jade Treasure, sentence 23
You will be the envy of all the kingdoms of the earth.”
Who acts: You · What happens: be · To what, where: envy
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, The Jade Treasure. 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 envy | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 envy | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 envy | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 envy | det |
| 5 | envy | envy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 kingdoms | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 kingdoms | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 kingdoms | det |
| 9 | kingdoms | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 envy | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 earth | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 earth | det |
| 12 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kingdoms | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 envy | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 envy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | future | You | the envy | of all kingdoms of the earth | 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: «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Project Gutenberg book 75089 (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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