The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 91

It would be fine if he could see his own country again; things would never be any different where he was now, and how wearisome it was getting to be!

Who acts: life, things, thing · What happens: be, see, not be, get · To what, where: own country

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, things, thing), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fine	expl
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fine	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 fine	cop
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 see	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 see	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 see	aux
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fine	csubj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 country	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 country	amod
11	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 see	obj
12	again	again	ADV	_	8 see	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 different	punct
14	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 different	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 different	aux
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 different	advmod
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 different	cop
18	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	19 different	det
19	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fine	parataxis
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 now	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 now	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 now	cop
23	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 different	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 wearisome	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 wearisome	cc
26	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	27 wearisome	advmod
27	wearisome	wearisome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fine	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 getting	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 getting	aux
30	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 wearisome	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 be	mark
32	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 getting	xcomp
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 fine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	would				fine property	tree rules
2	see a condition, not said to happen	could	life	life's own country	again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer country=Stimulus
3	not is	would	things			different property	tree rules
4	is	past	life			now property	tree rules
5	be						tree rules
6	get	past · progressive	thing				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	be	to-infinitive	thing not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 91

The tree

Pragmatics

The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 91