Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 3
The word was sent out and within a few days poems were presented and accepted on Summer, Autumn, and Winter, but not one written on Spring pleased the Emperor.
Who acts: pleased Emperor · What happens: send out, present, accept, write · To what, where: word, poems, one
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 (pleased Emperor), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 word | det |
| 2 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sent | aux:pass |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 sent | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 presented | cc |
| 7 | within | within | ADP | _ | 10 days | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 days | det |
| 9 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 days | amod |
| 10 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 presented | obl |
| 11 | poems | poem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 presented | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 presented | aux:pass |
| 13 | presented | present | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sent | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 accepted | cc |
| 15 | accepted | accept | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 presented | conj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 Summer | case |
| 17 | Summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 accepted | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Autumn | punct |
| 19 | Autumn | Autumn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 presented | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Winter | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Winter | cc |
| 22 | Winter | Winter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 written | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 written | cc |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 one | advmod |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 written | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 sent | advcl |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 Spring | case |
| 29 | Spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 written | obl |
| 30 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 Emperor | amod |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Emperor | det |
| 32 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 written | obl:agent |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send out | past · passive | the word | Winter obl | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | present | past · passive | poems | day | Autumn obl | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | accept | participle | summer | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | write | participle · passive | the pleased Emperor | one | spring | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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: «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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