The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 76
But the people were not happy and contented; they had heard of a place called Paradise, but it was only a legend to them.
Who acts: people, place · What happens: not be, content, hear, call, be · To what, where: place, legend, people · 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 (people, place), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 happy | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 happy | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 happy | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 happy | advmod |
| 6 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 contented | cc |
| 8 | contented | content | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 happy | conj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 heard | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 heard | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 heard | aux |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 happy | parataxis |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 place | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 place | det |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heard | obl |
| 16 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 place | acl |
| 17 | Paradise | Paradise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 called | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 legend | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 legend | cc |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 legend | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 legend | cop |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 24 legend | advmod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 legend | det |
| 24 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heard | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 legend | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 happy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the people | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | content | participle | the people not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | hear | past · perfect | people | of a place | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of place=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | call | participle | a place not said here | Paradise xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | place | a legend | people | tree rules |
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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