The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 113

The thought came to the Egyptian that to die would bring an end to his troubles, and so he said to the searchers: “I am he.”

Who acts: thought, that · What happens: come, die, bring, say, trouble · To what, where: end, troubles, searchers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thought, that), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 thought	det
2	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 Egyptian	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Egyptian	det
6	Egyptian	Egyptian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 came	xcomp
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 bring	nsubj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 die	mark
9	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 that	advcl
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 bring	aux
11	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 Egyptian	ccomp
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 end	det
13	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bring	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 troubles	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 troubles	nmod:poss
16	troubles	trouble	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 bring	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
19	so	so	ADV	_	21 said	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 said	nsubj
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 searchers	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 searchers	det
24	searchers	searcher	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 said	obl
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 am	punct
26	“	"	PUNCT	_	28 am	punct
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 am	nsubj
28	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 am	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the thought				egyptian property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	die	to-infinitive	that not said here					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	bring	would	that	a end		thought's troubles		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent end=Theme to trouble=Destination
4	say speech: assert	past	thought		the searchers			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to searcher=Recipient
5	trouble		thought					nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 113

The tree

Pragmatics

The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 113