The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 3
I would rather search in vain than blame myself as long as I live for having, perhaps, missed great riches, by being too unbelieving.”
Who acts: I · What happens: search, live, have, miss, unbeliev · To what, where: myself, vain, great riches
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 search | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 search | aux |
| 3 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 4 search | advmod |
| 4 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 vain | case |
| 6 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 search | obl |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 blame | case |
| 8 | blame | blame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 vain | obl |
| 9 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 4 search | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 long | advmod |
| 11 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 search | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 live | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 live | nsubj |
| 14 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 long | advcl |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 having | mark |
| 16 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 live | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 missed | punct |
| 18 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 20 missed | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 missed | punct |
| 20 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 search | parataxis |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 riches | amod |
| 22 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 missed | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 unbelieving | punct |
| 24 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 27 unbelieving | mark |
| 25 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 unbelieving | nsubj |
| 26 | too | too | ADV | _ | 27 unbelieving | advmod |
| 27 | unbelieving | unbeliev | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 search | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 search | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 search | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | search | would | I | myself | vain than blame | long property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in vain=Location | ||
| 2 | live | present | I | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have | gerund | I not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | miss | past | great riches | perhaps property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rich=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | unbeliev | gerund | 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: «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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