The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 5
“I wish to go back and live in the days when my wife and children were here.”
Who acts: Wang Chih, wife · What happens: wish, go back, live, be
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, wife), 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 | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 wish | nsubj |
| 3 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 go | mark |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wish | xcomp |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 go | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 live | cc |
| 8 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wish | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 days | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 days | det |
| 11 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 live | obl |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 18 here | mark |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wife | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 here | nsubj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 children | cc |
| 16 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 wife | conj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 here | cop |
| 18 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 live | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish in a quote | present | Wang Chih = chih | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go back not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Wang Chih = chih not said here | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | live in a quote | present | Wang Chih = chih not said here | day | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | past | my wife and children | here property | tree rules |
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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