Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Jade Treasure, sentence 26
“No words can describe its loveliness.
Who acts: words · What happens: describe · To what, where: loveliness
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 (words), 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 | _ | 5 describe | punct |
| 2 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 describe | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 describe | aux |
| 5 | describe | describe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 loveliness | nmod:poss |
| 7 | loveliness | loveliness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 describe | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 describe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe in a quote | can | no words | stone's loveliness | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent loveliness=Theme |
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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