The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 39
There was really nothing about which he need worry, but one day the thought came to him that he might fall sick and die.
Who acts: nothing, man, one day · What happens: be, need, come, fall, die · To what, where: worry, man
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 (nothing, man, one day), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 4 nothing | advmod |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 which | case |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 need | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 need | nsubj |
| 8 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 4 nothing | acl:relcl |
| 9 | worry | worry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 need | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 came | cc |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 day | nummod |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | nsubj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 thought | det |
| 15 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 day | nmod:unmarked |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 came | obl |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 fall | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 fall | nsubj |
| 21 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 fall | aux |
| 22 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 came | advcl |
| 23 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 fall | xcomp |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 die | cc |
| 25 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 fall | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | need | present | man | worry | which obl | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot worry=Theme | |||
| 3 | come | past | one day the thought | man | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | fall | might | man | sick property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | die | infinitive | man not said here | 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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