Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Jade Treasure, sentence 24
The Emperor was distrustful, but he commanded that it be cut and polished and the man who brought it be put in prison.
Who acts: Emperor, man · What happens: be, command, cut, polish, bring, put · To what, where: stone, man, prison · 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, man), 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 Emperor | det |
| 2 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 distrustful | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 distrustful | cop |
| 4 | distrustful | distrustful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 commanded | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 commanded | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 commanded | nsubj |
| 8 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 distrustful | conj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 cut | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 cut | aux:pass |
| 12 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 commanded | advcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 polished | cc |
| 14 | polished | polish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 cut | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 put | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 put | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 brought | nsubj |
| 19 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 man | acl:relcl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 brought | obj |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 put | aux:pass |
| 22 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 cut | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 prison | case |
| 24 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 put | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 distrustful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Emperor | distrustful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | command | past | Emperor | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | cut | infinitive · passive | stone | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 4 | polish | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | bring | past | the man | stone | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 6 | put | infinitive · passive | the man | prison | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in prison=Destination |
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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