The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 4
“But I don’t want to live forever,” objected Wang Chih.
Who acts: Wang Chih · What happens: not want, live, object · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wang Chih), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 want | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 want | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 want | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 want | aux |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 want | advmod |
| 6 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 objected | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 live | mark |
| 8 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 want | xcomp |
| 9 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 8 live | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 want | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 want | punct |
| 12 | objected | object | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Wang | Wang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Chih | compound |
| 14 | Chih | Chih | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 objected | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 objected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not want in a quote | present · do-support | Wang Chih = chih | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | live not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Wang Chih = chih not said here | forever property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | object speech: other | past | Wang Chih | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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