The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 82
They had tried everything they could think of to bring this about, but without success.
Who acts: inhabitants · What happens: try, think, bring · To what, where: everything, this · 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 (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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tried | aux |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 tried | obj |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 think | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 think | aux |
| 7 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 everything | acl:relcl |
| 8 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 10 bring | mark |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 bring | mark |
| 10 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 think | ccomp |
| 11 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 bring | obj |
| 12 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 bring | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 success | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 success | cc |
| 15 | without | without | ADP | _ | 16 success | case |
| 16 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tried | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past · perfect | inhabitants = inhabitant | everything | success parataxis | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | could | inhabitants = inhabitant | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bring | to-infinitive | this | about property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent this=Theme |
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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