The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 79
How they wished it could come to them, so that they could enter the happy land of Paradise!
Who acts: people, death · What happens: wish, come, enter · To what, where: people, happy land · 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, 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 wished | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wished | nsubj |
| 3 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 come | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 come | aux |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wished | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 come | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 enter | punct |
| 10 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 14 enter | mark |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 so | fixed |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 enter | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 enter | aux |
| 14 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 come | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 land | det |
| 16 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 land | amod |
| 17 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 enter | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Paradise | case |
| 19 | Paradise | paradise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 land | nmod |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | past | people | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | could | death | people | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | enter | could | people | the happy land of Paradise | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme land=Destination |
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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