The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 8
Some time after this the Emperor became very ill, and as the physicians said that he could not live for more than a few days, his successor was chosen.
Who acts: Emperor, physicians, Physician · What happens: become, say, not live, choose · To what, where: successor · 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 (Emperor, physicians, Physician), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 became | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 this | case |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | nmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Emperor | det |
| 6 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 became | nsubj |
| 7 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 ill | advmod |
| 9 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 became | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 physicians | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 physicians | det |
| 14 | physicians | physician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 became | conj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 live | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 live | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 live | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 live | advmod |
| 20 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 more | case |
| 22 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 live | obl |
| 23 | than | than | ADP | _ | 26 days | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 days | det |
| 25 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 days | amod |
| 26 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 more | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 chosen | punct |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 successor | nmod:poss |
| 29 | successor | successor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 chosen | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 chosen | aux:pass |
| 31 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 live | parataxis |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the Emperor | time | ill property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the physicians | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not live | could | Physician | for more than a few days | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | choose | past · passive | Physician's successor | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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