The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 27

The penalty for lack of speed in the race was heavy, but many were those who made the attempt, hoping that they might succeed, only to perish as a result.

Who acts: penalty, many, children · What happens: be, make, hope, succeed, perish, lack · To what, where: those, attempt, speed · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (penalty, many, children), 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 penalty	det
2	penalty	penalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 heavy	nsubj
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 lack	case
4	lack	lack	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 penalty	nmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 speed	case
6	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lack	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 race	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 race	det
9	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 speed	nmod
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 heavy	cop
11	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 those	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 those	cc
14	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 those	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 those	cop
16	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 heavy	conj
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 made	nsubj
18	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 those	acl:relcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 attempt	det
20	attempt	attempt	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hoping	punct
22	hoping	hope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 made	advcl
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 succeed	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 succeed	nsubj
25	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 succeed	aux
26	succeed	succeed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 hoping	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 perish	punct
28	only	only	ADV	_	30 perish	advmod
29	to	to	PART	_	30 perish	mark
30	perish	perish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 succeed	conj
31	as	as	ADP	_	33 result	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 result	det
33	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 perish	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 heavy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the penalty for lack of speed in the race		heavy property	tree rules
2	is a	past	many	those		tree rules
3	make	past		the attempt	who nsubj	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attempt=Product
4	hope	gerund				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	succeed	might	children = child			vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	perish	to-infinitive	children = child not said here		as a result	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
7	lack			speed in the race		nom lack «state transitive»: of=patient

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 7, sentence 27

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 27