The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 77
The third advised them to be virtuous, upright, and moderate in their pleasures, as such a course would go far towards living a long and happy life.
Who acts: third, summons, course · What happens: advise, be, go, live, please · To what, where: summons, pleasures, long life
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 (third, summons, course), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 third | det |
| 2 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 advised | nsubj |
| 3 | advised | advise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 advised | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 virtuous | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 virtuous | cop |
| 7 | virtuous | virtuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 advised | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 upright | punct |
| 9 | upright | upright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 virtuous | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 moderate | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 moderate | cc |
| 12 | moderate | moderate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 virtuous | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 pleasures | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 pleasures | nmod:poss |
| 15 | pleasures | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 moderate | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 go | punct |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 go | mark |
| 18 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 course | det:predet |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 course | det |
| 20 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 go | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 go | aux |
| 22 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 advised | parataxis |
| 23 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 go | advmod |
| 24 | towards | towards | SCONJ | _ | 25 living | mark |
| 25 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 go | advcl |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 life | det |
| 27 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 life | amod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 happy | cc |
| 29 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 long | conj |
| 30 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 living | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 advised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | advise speech: other | past | the third | summons = summon | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is not said to happen | to-infinitive | summons = summon not said here | virtuous property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | summons = summon not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | be | summons = summon not said here | summons's pleasures | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | go | would | such course | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | live | gerund | such course not said here | a long life | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | please | summons = summon | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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