The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 26
Chang-ngan was the ancient capital of China, a very large city indeed, and Pin-Too, the teacher to whom Pei-Hang was sent, was the wisest man there.
Who acts: Chang ngan, Pin · What happens: be, send · To what, where: ancient capital, Pei, wisest man
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chang ngan, Pin), 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 | Chang | chang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ngan | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Chang | punct |
| 3 | ngan | ngan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 capital | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 capital | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 capital | det |
| 6 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 capital | amod |
| 7 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 China | case |
| 9 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 capital | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 city | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 city | det |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 large | advmod |
| 13 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 city | amod |
| 14 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 capital | parataxis |
| 15 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 14 city | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 man | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 man | cc |
| 18 | Pin | Pin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 man | nsubj |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Pin | punct |
| 20 | Too | too | ADV | _ | 18 Pin | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 teacher | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 teacher | det |
| 23 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Pin | appos |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 whom | case |
| 25 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 teacher | nmod |
| 26 | Pei | Pei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 Pei | punct |
| 28 | Hang | Hang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Pei | flat |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 sent | aux:pass |
| 30 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 whom | acl:relcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Pin | punct |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 man | cop |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 man | det |
| 34 | wisest | wise | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 35 man | amod |
| 35 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 capital | conj |
| 36 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 35 man | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 capital | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Chang ngan | the ancient capital and the wisest man | of China; a large city parataxis | tree rules | |||
| 2 | send | past · passive | Pei | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | Pin | the wisest man | there | tree rules |
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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