The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 78
Ordinary people have a dread of death, but these were very different, for they looked upon it as something very much to be desired.
Who acts: Ordinary people, these, people · What happens: have, be, look, desire, dread · To what, where: dread, death
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 (Ordinary people, these, people), 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 | Ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 dread | det |
| 5 | dread | dread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 death | case |
| 7 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dread | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 different | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 different | cc |
| 10 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 different | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 different | cop |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 different | advmod |
| 13 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 have | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 looked | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 looked | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 looked | nsubj |
| 17 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 different | conj |
| 18 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 looked | obl |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 something | case |
| 21 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 looked | obl |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 much | advmod |
| 23 | much | much | ADV | _ | 26 desired | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 desired | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 desired | aux:pass |
| 26 | desired | desire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 looked | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Ordinary people | a dread of death | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dread=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | these | different property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | look | past | people | upon death; as something | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | desire | to-infinitive · passive | people not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF» | |||||
| 5 | dread | death | nom dread «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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