The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 28
And this was just what he wanted to be, for the yellow-faced mandarin was only the richest man in Chang-ngan, and he knew that the richest man in China would have much the greater chance of winning Yun-Ying.
Who acts: this, Pei, faced mandarin, richest man, greater chance · What happens: be, want, know, have, win · To what, where: richest man, Chang ngan, greater chance, Yun Ying · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, Pei, faced mandarin, richest man), 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 | _ | 5 what | cc |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 what | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | cop |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 what | advmod |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 wanted | nsubj |
| 7 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 be | mark |
| 9 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wanted | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 man | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 man | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mandarin | det |
| 13 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 faced | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 yellow | punct |
| 15 | faced | faced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 mandarin | amod |
| 16 | mandarin | mandarin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 man | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 man | cop |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 man | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 man | det |
| 20 | richest | rich | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 man | amod |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wanted | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 ngan | case |
| 23 | Chang | Chang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 ngan | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 Chang | punct |
| 25 | ngan | ngan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 man | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 knew | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 knew | cc |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 knew | nsubj |
| 29 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wanted | parataxis |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 have | mark |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 man | det |
| 32 | richest | rich | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 33 man | amod |
| 33 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 have | nsubj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 China | case |
| 35 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 man | nmod |
| 36 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 have | aux |
| 37 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 knew | ccomp |
| 38 | much | much | ADV | _ | 41 chance | advmod |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 chance | det |
| 40 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 41 chance | amod |
| 41 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 have | obj |
| 42 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 43 winning | mark |
| 43 | winning | win | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 41 chance | acl |
| 44 | Yun | Yun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 Ying | compound |
| 45 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 44 Yun | punct |
| 46 | Ying | Ying | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 winning | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | want | past | Pei | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | be not said to happen | to-infinitive | Pei not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | the faced mandarin | the richest man | Chang ngan | tree rules | |||
| 5 | know | past | Pei | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | have | would | the richest man in China | the greater chance | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient | ||||
| 7 | win | gerund | the greater chance not said here | Yun Ying | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ying=Eventuality |
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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