The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 90
He began to think that perhaps the other people were not so foolish when they wanted to die!
Who acts: life, other people, people · What happens: begin, think, not be, want, die
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 (life, other people, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 began | nsubj |
| 2 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 think | mark |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 began | xcomp |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 foolish | mark |
| 6 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 13 foolish | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 people | det |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 people | amod |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 foolish | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 foolish | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 foolish | advmod |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 foolish | advmod |
| 13 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 think | ccomp |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 wanted | advmod |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 wanted | nsubj |
| 16 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 foolish | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 die | mark |
| 18 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 wanted | xcomp |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | life | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | life not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is | past | the other people | foolish, perhaps property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | want | past | people | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | die not said to happen | to-infinitive | people not said here | 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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