Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Jade Treasure, sentence 25
After three days the master-workman returned and delivered, with great reverence, the stone, now indeed the most beautiful in all the world.
Who acts: master workman · What happens: return, deliver · To what, where: great reverence
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 (master workman), 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 | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 days | nummod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 returned | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 workman | det |
| 5 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 workman | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 master | punct |
| 7 | workman | workman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 returned | nsubj |
| 8 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 delivered | cc |
| 10 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 returned | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 reverence | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 reverence | case |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 reverence | amod |
| 14 | reverence | reverence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 delivered | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stone | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 stone | det |
| 17 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reverence | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 beautiful | punct |
| 19 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 beautiful | advmod |
| 20 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 23 beautiful | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 beautiful | det |
| 22 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 23 beautiful | advmod |
| 23 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 reverence | parataxis |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 world | case |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 world | det:predet |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 world | det |
| 27 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 beautiful | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the master workman | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | deliver | past | the master workman not said here | great reverence and the stone | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reverence=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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