The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 105
Not long ago he would have welcomed death.
What happens: welcome · To what, where: life
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 ago | advmod |
| 3 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 7 welcomed | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 welcomed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 welcomed | aux |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 welcomed | aux |
| 7 | welcomed | welcome | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 welcomed | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 welcomed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | welcome | would · perfect · passive | life | death obj; ago property | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme death=Location |
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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