Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Jade Treasure, sentence 19
After looking at the stone carefully he said, “Great Emperor, you are most favoured of the gods.
Who acts: Emperor · What happens: look, say, favour · To what, where: Great 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 looking | mark |
| 2 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 stone | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 stone | det |
| 5 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looking | obl |
| 6 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 2 looking | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 favoured | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 favoured | punct |
| 11 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Emperor | amod |
| 12 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 favoured | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Emperor | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 favoured | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 favoured | aux:pass |
| 16 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 17 favoured | advmod |
| 17 | favoured | favour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 said | ccomp |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 gods | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 gods | det |
| 20 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 favoured | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | gerund | Emperor not said here | at the stone; carefully property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at stone=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Emperor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | favour in a quote | present · passive | Great Emperor | of the gods; you nsubj | 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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