The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 41
“It seems to me,” said he to himself, “that a man ought to live a much longer life than he does.
Who acts: It, man · What happens: seem, say, live, do · To what, where: man, longer life · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (It, man), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 seems | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seems | nsubj |
| 3 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 seems | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 seems | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 seems | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 himself | case |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 live | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 live | punct |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 live | mark |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 live | nsubj |
| 17 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 live | aux |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 live | mark |
| 19 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 life | det |
| 21 | much | much | ADV | _ | 22 longer | advmod |
| 22 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 life | amod |
| 23 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 live | obj |
| 24 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 26 does | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 does | nsubj |
| 26 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 live | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem in a quote | present | It | man | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | man | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | live in a quote | ought | a man | a longer life | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location | ||||
| 4 | do in a quote | present | man | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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