Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Jade Treasure, sentence 10

Here he prostrated himself before his Emperor and, holding out the stone, said, “My Master, my Lord; in all the world under Heaven there is no second piece of jade equal to this.”

Who acts: workman · What happens: prostrate, hold out, say, be · To what, where: workman, stone, second piece, world · Speech: someone speaks here

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: who acts (workman), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 prostrated	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 prostrated	nsubj
3	prostrated	prostrate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 prostrated	obj
5	before	before	ADP	_	7 Emperor	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 Emperor	nmod:poss
7	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 prostrated	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 and	punct
10	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 said	advcl
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 holding	compound:prt
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stone	det
13	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 holding	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 holding	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 prostrated	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Master	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 Master	punct
18	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 Master	nmod:poss
19	Master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Lord	punct
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 Lord	nmod:poss
22	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Master	appos
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 piece	punct
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 world	case
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 world	det:predet
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 world	det
27	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 piece	obl
28	under	under	ADP	_	29 Heaven	case
29	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 is	obl
30	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	31 is	expl
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 piece	cop
32	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	34 piece	det
33	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	34 piece	amod
34	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 prostrated	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 jade	case
36	jade	jade	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 piece	nmod
37	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 piece	amod
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 this	case
39	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 equal	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 piece	punct
41	”	"	PUNCT	_	34 piece	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prostrate	past	workman	workman	here	before workman's Emperor		tree rules
2	hold out	gerund		the stone				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	workman not said here				My Master ccomp	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	present		no second piece	all world		of jade	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: «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 10

The tree

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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Jade Treasure, sentence 10