The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 27
When he tried to do things, he made such dreadful mistakes that he might better not have tried.
Who acts: JUAN · What happens: try, do, make, not try · To what, where: things, such dreadful mistakes
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (JUAN), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 tried | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 made | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 do | mark |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tried | xcomp |
| 6 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 do | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 made | nsubj |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 mistakes | amod |
| 11 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 mistakes | amod |
| 12 | mistakes | mistake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 made | obj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 tried | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 tried | nsubj |
| 15 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 tried | aux |
| 16 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 tried | advmod |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 tried | advmod |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 tried | aux |
| 19 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 made | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | JUAN | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | JUAN not said here | things | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | make | past | JUAN | such dreadful mistakes | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Product | ||||
| 4 | not try | might · perfect | JUAN | well property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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