The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 113
You were not contented there and wished to return to your own country that you might die.
Who acts: own country · What happens: not content, wish, return, die · To what, where: You
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: who acts (own country), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 contented | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 contented | aux:pass |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 contented | advmod |
| 4 | contented | content | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 contented | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wished | cc |
| 7 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 contented | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 return | mark |
| 9 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wished | xcomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 country | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 country | nmod:poss |
| 12 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 country | amod |
| 13 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 return | obl |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 die | nsubj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 die | nsubj |
| 16 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 die | aux |
| 17 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 country | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 contented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not content | past · passive | You | there | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | wish | past | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | return not said to happen | to-infinitive | to your own country result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to country=Result | |||||
| 4 | die | might | your own country | you nsubj | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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