Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 31
After much thought as to how to avert such a calamity, he issued a proclamation that no one by the name of Chi be admitted to the examination.
Who acts: story · What happens: think, avert, issue, admit, name · To what, where: calamity, proclamation, one, examination, Chi · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (story), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 3 thought | mark |
| 2 | much | much | ADV | _ | 3 thought | advmod |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 avert | mark |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 as | fixed |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 avert | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 avert | mark |
| 8 | avert | avert | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 9 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 calamity | det:predet |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 calamity | det |
| 11 | calamity | calamity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 avert | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 issued | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 issued | nsubj |
| 14 | issued | issue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 proclamation | det |
| 16 | proclamation | proclamation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 issued | obj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 admitted | mark |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 one | det |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 admitted | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 name | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 name | det |
| 22 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 one | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Chi | case |
| 24 | Chi | Chi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 name | nmod |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 admitted | aux:pass |
| 26 | admitted | admit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 issued | advcl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 examination | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 examination | det |
| 29 | examination | examination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 admitted | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | participle | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | avert | to-infinitive | such calamity | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | issue | past | story | a proclamation | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location proclamation=Theme | ||||
| 4 | admit speech: other | infinitive · passive | no one by the name of Chi | the examination | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to examination=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | name | Chi | nom name «communication 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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