Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Jade Treasure, sentence 1

Among the ancient dynasties of China that of the Chou, 1123 B.C., ranks as one of the most important.

What happens: rank · To what, where: that

This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, The Jade Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	Among	among	ADP	_	4 dynasties	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dynasties	det
3	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dynasties	amod
4	dynasties	dynasty	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 ranks	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 China	case
6	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dynasties	nmod
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 ranks	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 Chou	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Chou	det
10	Chou	Chou	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 ranks	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 1123	punct
12	1123	1123	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 Chou	list
13	B.C	B.C	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 1123	nmod:unmarked
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 Chou	punct
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Chou	punct
16	ranks	rank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	as	as	ADP	_	18 one	case
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 ranks	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 important	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 important	det
21	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	22 important	advmod
22	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 one	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 ranks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rank	present		that				among the ancient dynasties of China; of the Chou; as one of the important	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent that=Theme as one=Attribute

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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Jade Treasure, sentence 1

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Jade Treasure, sentence 1