The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 16
He remembered how jealous he had been of Musai, and how he had tried to ruin him by killing his silkworms.
Who acts: Larger · What happens: remember, be, try, ruin, kill · To what, where: Larger, silkworms
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Larger), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 remembered | nsubj |
| 2 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 jealous | advmod |
| 4 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 remembered | xcomp |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 Musai | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Musai | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 Musai | cop |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Musai | case |
| 9 | Musai | Musai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 remembered | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tried | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 tried | cc |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 tried | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 tried | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 tried | aux |
| 15 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 remembered | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 ruin | mark |
| 17 | ruin | ruin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 tried | xcomp |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 ruin | obj |
| 19 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 20 killing | mark |
| 20 | killing | kill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 ruin | advcl |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 silkworms | nmod:poss |
| 22 | silkworms | silkworm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 killing | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 remembered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | past | Larger = large | jealous property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past · perfect | Larger = large | of Musai | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | try | past · perfect | Larger = large | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | ruin not said to happen | to-infinitive | Larger = large not said here | Larger = large | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 5 | kill | gerund | Larger = large not said here | Larger's silkworms | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silkworm=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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