The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 95
He had been in the habit of worrying the people of his district, and whenever he began to worry anyone, that person had to pay in order to live peacefully.
Who acts: SIN, habit, person · What happens: be, worry, begin, have, pay, live · To what, where: habit, people, anyone
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (SIN, habit, person), 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 | 6 habit | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 habit | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 habit | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 habit | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 habit | det |
| 6 | habit | habit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 worrying | mark |
| 8 | worrying | worry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 habit | acl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 people | det |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 worrying | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 district | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 district | nmod:poss |
| 13 | district | district | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 people | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 began | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 began | cc |
| 16 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 began | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 began | nsubj |
| 18 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 habit | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 worry | mark |
| 20 | worry | worry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 began | xcomp |
| 21 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 20 worry | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 had | punct |
| 23 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 person | det |
| 24 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 had | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 began | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 pay | mark |
| 27 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 had | xcomp |
| 28 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 31 live | mark |
| 29 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 in | fixed |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 live | mark |
| 31 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 pay | advcl |
| 32 | peacefully | peacefully | ADV | _ | 31 live | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 habit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | SIN | the habit | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | worry | gerund | the habit not said here | the people of SIN's district | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | SIN | whenever property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | worry | to-infinitive | SIN not said here | anyone | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus anyone=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | have | past | that person | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | pay | to-infinitive | that person not said here | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | live | to-infinitive | that person not said here | peacefully property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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