The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 71
It had long been his desire to rule the country, so when Fugi died, he thought his opportunity had come.
Who acts: hair, Fugi, man, opportunity · What happens: have, be, rule, die, think, come · To what, where: desire, country · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hair, Fugi, man, opportunity), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 desire | advmod |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 desire | cop |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 desire | nmod:poss |
| 6 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 rule | mark |
| 8 | rule | rule | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 desire | acl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 country | det |
| 10 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rule | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 thought | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 thought | advmod |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 died | advmod |
| 14 | Fugi | Fugi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 died | nsubj |
| 15 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 thought | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 died | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 thought | nsubj |
| 18 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 opportunity | nmod:poss |
| 20 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 come | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 come | aux |
| 22 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 thought | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | hair | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | participle | man's desire | man nmod:poss; long property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | rule | to-infinitive | hair not said here | the country | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Theme | ||||
| 4 | die | past | Fugi | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | think speech: other | past | man | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | come | past · perfect | man's opportunity | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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