The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 80

Wang Chih was not likely to forget the Feast of Lanterns, for the children had talked of nothing else for a month, and he promised to come home as early as he could.

Who acts: Wang · What happens: not be, forget, talk, promise, come · To what, where: Feast, children

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 (Wang), 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	Wang	Wang	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 likely	nsubj
2	Chih	Chih	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Wang	flat
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 likely	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 likely	advmod
5	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 forget	mark
7	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 likely	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Feast	det
9	Feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 forget	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Lanterns	case
11	Lanterns	Lantern	PROPN	Number=Plur	9 Feast	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 talked	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 talked	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 children	det
15	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 talked	nsubj:pass
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 talked	aux
17	talked	talk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 likely	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 nothing	case
19	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 talked	obl
20	else	else	ADV	_	19 nothing	advmod
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 month	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 month	det
23	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 talked	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 promised	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 promised	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 promised	nsubj
27	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 likely	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 come	mark
29	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 promised	xcomp
30	home	home	ADV	_	29 come	advmod
31	as	as	ADV	_	32 early	advmod
32	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 come	advmod
33	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 could	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 could	nsubj
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 come	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 likely	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	Wang			likely property	tree rules
2	forget	to-infinitive	Wang not said here	the Feast of Lanterns			tree rules
3	talk	past · perfect · passive		the children	month	of nothing	vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Patient
4	promise speech: promise	past	Wang				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	come not said to happen	to-infinitive	Wang not said here			early, home property	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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 80

The tree

Pragmatics

The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 80