The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 93
One day he happened to think that his prayers to Jofuku had resulted in bringing him to this country.
Who acts: life, prayers · What happens: happen, think, result, bring, pray · To what, where: life, country · 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 (life, prayers), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happened | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 think | mark |
| 6 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 happened | xcomp |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 resulted | mark |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 prayers | nmod:poss |
| 9 | prayers | prayer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 resulted | nsubj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Jofuku | case |
| 11 | Jofuku | Jofuku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 prayers | nmod |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 resulted | aux |
| 13 | resulted | result | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 think | ccomp |
| 14 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 15 bringing | mark |
| 15 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 resulted | advcl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 bringing | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 country | case |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 country | det |
| 19 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bringing | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | life | day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | life not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | result | past · perfect | life's prayers to Jofuku | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | bring | gerund | life's prayers to Jofuku not said here | life | this country | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to country=Destination | |||
| 5 | pray | life | to Jofuku | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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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