The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 81
He had come here hoping to live forever, and found the inhabitants wishing more than anything else that they could die.
Who acts: Jofuku, inhabitants · What happens: come, hope, live, find, wish, die · To what, where: inhabitants, anything
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 (Jofuku, inhabitants), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 come | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | aux |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 come | advmod |
| 5 | hoping | hope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 come | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 live | mark |
| 7 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hoping | xcomp |
| 8 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 7 live | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 found | cc |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 inhabitants | det |
| 13 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 found | obj |
| 14 | wishing | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 inhabitants | acl |
| 15 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 17 anything | advmod |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 more | fixed |
| 17 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 wishing | obj |
| 18 | else | else | ADV | _ | 17 anything | advmod |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 die | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 die | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 die | aux |
| 22 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 anything | acl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · perfect | Jofuku | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hope | gerund | Jofuku not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | live not said to happen | to-infinitive | Jofuku not said here | forever property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find | past | the inhabitants | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inhabitant=Topic | |||||
| 5 | wish | gerund | the inhabitants not said here | anything | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot anything=Theme | ||||
| 6 | die | could | inhabitants = inhabitant | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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