Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Jade Treasure, sentence 16
Then the Emperor was very angry and commanded that the man’s legs be cut off and that he be sent home.
Who acts: Emperor · What happens: be, command, cut off, send · To what, where: legs, Emperor · 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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 angry | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Emperor | det |
| 3 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 angry | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 angry | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 angry | advmod |
| 6 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 commanded | cc |
| 8 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 angry | conj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 cut | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 legs | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 man | case |
| 13 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 cut | aux:pass |
| 15 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 commanded | parataxis |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 cut | compound:prt |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sent | cc |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 sent | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 sent | nsubj |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 sent | aux:pass |
| 21 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 cut | conj |
| 22 | home | home | ADV | _ | 21 sent | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Emperor | then | angry property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | command | past | the Emperor not said here | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | cut off | infinitive · passive | the man's legs | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | send | infinitive · passive | Emperor | home property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: 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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