Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Jade Treasure, sentence 22
“Because,” was the answer, “this stone is the most perfect jade under Heaven.
Who acts: stone · What happens: be · To what, where: answer, perfect jade, Heaven · 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 (stone), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 answer | punct |
| 2 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 answer | mark |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Because | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 answer | punct |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 answer | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 answer | det |
| 7 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 jade | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 jade | punct |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 stone | det |
| 11 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 jade | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 jade | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 jade | det |
| 14 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 15 perfect | advmod |
| 15 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 jade | amod |
| 16 | jade | jade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answer | nmod |
| 17 | under | under | ADP | _ | 18 Heaven | case |
| 18 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 jade | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 answer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be speech: assert | past | the answer | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | this stone | the perfect jade | Heaven | 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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