The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 34

And so he died, thus teaching a lesson to those who are so proud of their own might that they all think all others must bow down to them.

Who acts: language, mosquitoes, others · What happens: die, teach, be, think, bow down · To what, where: lesson, those, mosquitoes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (language, mosquitoes, others), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 died	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	4 died	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 died	nsubj
4	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 proud	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 teaching	punct
6	thus	thus	ADV	_	7 teaching	advmod
7	teaching	teach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 died	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 lesson	det
9	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 teaching	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 those	case
11	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 teaching	obl
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 those	obj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 proud	cop
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 proud	advmod
15	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 own	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 own	nmod:poss
18	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 proud	obl
19	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 think	aux
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 think	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 think	nsubj
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 they	det
23	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 proud	parataxis
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 others	det
25	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 bow	nsubj
26	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 bow	aux
27	bow	bow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 think	ccomp
28	down	down	ADV	_	27 bow	advmod
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 bow	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 proud	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	die	past	language				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	teach speech: other	gerund	language not said here	a lesson	those	thus property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent lesson=Topic to that=Recipient
3	is	present				of mosquitoes's own; proud property	tree rules
4	think speech: other	might	mosquitoes = mosquito				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	bow down	must	all others		mosquitoes = mosquito	down property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to they=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 24, sentence 34

The tree

Pragmatics

The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 34