Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 153
Thus in a life of unselfish service of man was he made pure, until he reached that perfection which is absorption into the Divine.
Who acts: life, sage, perfection · What happens: be, reach, service · To what, where: perfection, Divine, absorption, man
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Chinese Tea-house Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (life, sage, perfection), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 4 life | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 life | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 life | det |
| 4 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 service | case |
| 6 | unselfish | unselfish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 service | amod |
| 7 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 life | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 man | case |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 service | nmod |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 made | cop |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 made | nsubj |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 made | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 reached | punct |
| 15 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 17 reached | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 reached | nsubj |
| 17 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 made | conj |
| 18 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 perfection | det |
| 19 | perfection | perfection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reached | obj |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 absorption | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 absorption | cop |
| 22 | absorption | absorption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 perfection | conj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 Divine | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Divine | det |
| 25 | Divine | Divine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 reached | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | a life of unselfish service of man | sage nsubj; make, pure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | sage | that perfection and absorption | the Divine | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent perfection=Theme | |||
| 3 | is a | present | that perfection and absorption | absorption | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | service | man | nom service «act transitive»: of=patient |
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: «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Project Gutenberg book 75089 (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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