The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 77
They knew that one could not reach this wonderful land without dying, and death was something they longed for, but which never came to them.
Who acts: people, one, death · What happens: know, not reach, die, be, long, not come · To what, where: wonderful land, something, 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, one, death), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 reach | mark |
| 4 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 reach | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 reach | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 reach | advmod |
| 7 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 knew | ccomp |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 land | det |
| 9 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 land | amod |
| 10 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reach | obj |
| 11 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 12 dying | mark |
| 12 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 reach | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 something | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 something | cc |
| 15 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 something | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 something | cop |
| 17 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 knew | obl |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 longed | nsubj |
| 19 | longed | long | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 something | acl:relcl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 longed | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 came | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 came | cc |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 came | nsubj |
| 24 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 came | advmod |
| 25 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knew | parataxis |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 them | case |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 came | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | people | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not reach | could | one | this wonderful land | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent land=Theme | ||||
| 3 | die | gerund | one not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | death | something | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | long | past | people | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 6 | not come | past | people | which nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial_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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