The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 83
And strange to say the worms came, and throve splendidly, much to Chô’s disappointment, because he was too mean to wish good-fortune to visit anyone but himself.
Who acts: strange, Chô · What happens: say, come, throve, be, wish, visit · To what, where: worms, much, good fortune, anyone · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strange, Chô), 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 | _ | 2 strange | cc |
| 2 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 came | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 say | mark |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 strange | xcomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 worms | det |
| 6 | worms | worm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 say | obj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 throve | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 throve | cc |
| 10 | throve | throve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 came | conj |
| 11 | splendidly | splendidly | ADV | _ | 10 throve | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 much | punct |
| 13 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 throve | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 disappointment | case |
| 15 | Chô | Chô | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 disappointment | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 Chô | case |
| 17 | disappointment | disappointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 much | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 mean | punct |
| 19 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 23 mean | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 mean | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 mean | cop |
| 22 | too | too | ADV | _ | 23 mean | advmod |
| 23 | mean | mean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 throve | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 wish | mark |
| 25 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 mean | ccomp |
| 26 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 fortune | amod |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 good | punct |
| 28 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wish | obj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 visit | mark |
| 30 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 wish | advcl |
| 31 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 30 visit | obj |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 himself | cc |
| 33 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 wish | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | strange not said here | the worms | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent worm=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come | past | strange | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | throve | infinitive | strange not said here | much | to Chô's disappointment; splendidly property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is | past | Chô | mean property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | wish not said to happen | to-infinitive | good fortune | Chô conj | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fortune=Theme | ||||
| 6 | visit | to-infinitive | anyone | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Co-Agent | |||||
| 7 | disappoint | Chô | nom disappointment «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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