Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Jade Treasure, sentence 17
Months after the man was again carried to the palace gate; here he pleaded so pitifully that the first workman in the kingdom be called, saying, “If he says it is not good you may have my life.”
Who acts: man, gate, you · What happens: carry, plead, call, say, not be, have · To what, where: Months, palace gate, first workman, life · 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 (man, gate, you), 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 | Months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 man | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Months | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 carried | aux:pass |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 carried | advmod |
| 7 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 gate | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 gate | det |
| 10 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gate | compound |
| 11 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 carried | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 pleaded | punct |
| 13 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 pleaded | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 pleaded | nsubj |
| 15 | pleaded | plead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 carried | conj |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 pitifully | advmod |
| 17 | pitifully | pitifully | ADV | _ | 15 pleaded | advmod |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 called | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 workman | det |
| 20 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 21 workman | amod |
| 21 | workman | workman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 called | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 kingdom | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 kingdom | det |
| 24 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 workman | nmod |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 called | aux:pass |
| 26 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 pitifully | advcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 saying | punct |
| 28 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 pleaded | advcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 have | punct |
| 30 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 have | punct |
| 31 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 33 says | mark |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 says | nsubj |
| 33 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 have | advcl |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 good | nsubj |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 good | cop |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 good | advmod |
| 37 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 says | ccomp |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 have | nsubj |
| 39 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 have | aux |
| 40 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 saying | ccomp |
| 41 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 life | nmod:poss |
| 42 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 have | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 carried | punct |
| 44 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past · passive | Months after the man | the palace gate | again | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to gate=Destination | |||
| 2 | plead speech: request | past | man | here | pitifully property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | call | infinitive · passive | the first workman in the kingdom | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | man not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | not is in a quote | present | gate | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | have in a quote | may | you | my life | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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