Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Jade Treasure, sentence 2
The name of its founder, Wu Wang, means “Warrior Prince,” and, though an usurper, he was a most exemplary monarch.
Who acts: name, Wu · What happens: mean, be, name · To what, where: Warrior, exemplary monarch, founder
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 (name, Wu), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 name | det |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 means | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 founder | case |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 founder | nmod:poss |
| 5 | founder | founder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 name | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Wu | punct |
| 7 | Wu | Wu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 founder | appos |
| 8 | Wang | Wang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Wu | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 name | punct |
| 10 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Warrior | punct |
| 12 | Warrior | Warrior | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 means | obj |
| 13 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Warrior | flat |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Warrior | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Warrior | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 usurper | cc |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 usurper | punct |
| 18 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 20 usurper | mark |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 usurper | det |
| 20 | usurper | usurper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Warrior | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 monarch | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 monarch | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 monarch | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 monarch | det |
| 25 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 26 exemplary | advmod |
| 26 | exemplary | exemplary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 monarch | amod |
| 27 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Warrior | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | the name of name's founder | Warrior and a usurper and a exemplary monarch | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warrior=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Wu | a exemplary monarch | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | name | name's founder | nom name «communication transitive»: of=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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