Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Jade Treasure, sentence 29
Soon the fame of this wonderful treasure spread over “all the earth”; songs were composed about it; wonderful stories grew up around it until every king who heard of it was filled with envy and sought, by fair or foul means, to possess it.
Who acts: fame, wonderful stories, king, fair · What happens: spread, compose, grow up, hear, fill, seek · To what, where: earth, songs, fame, king
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 (fame, wonderful stories, king, fair), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 spread | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fame | det |
| 3 | fame | fame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spread | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 treasure | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 treasure | det |
| 6 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 treasure | amod |
| 7 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fame | nmod |
| 8 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 earth | case |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 earth | punct |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 earth | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 earth | det |
| 13 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spread | obl |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 earth | punct |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 composed | punct |
| 16 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 composed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 composed | aux:pass |
| 18 | composed | compose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 spread | conj |
| 19 | about | about | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 composed | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 grew | punct |
| 22 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 stories | amod |
| 23 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 grew | nsubj |
| 24 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 spread | conj |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 grew | compound:prt |
| 26 | around | around | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 grew | obl |
| 28 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 36 filled | mark |
| 29 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 king | det |
| 30 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 filled | nsubj |
| 31 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 heard | nsubj |
| 32 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 king | acl:relcl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 it | case |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 heard | obl |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 filled | aux:pass |
| 36 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 grew | advcl |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 envy | case |
| 38 | envy | envy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 filled | obl |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 sought | cc |
| 40 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 filled | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 means | punct |
| 42 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 46 means | mark |
| 43 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 means | nsubj |
| 44 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 45 foul | cc |
| 45 | foul | foul | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 fair | conj |
| 46 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 sought | parataxis |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 possess | punct |
| 48 | to | to | PART | _ | 49 possess | mark |
| 49 | possess | possess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 means | conj |
| 50 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 possess | obj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | past | the fame of this wonderful treasure | all earth | soon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over earth=Location | |||
| 2 | compose | past · passive | songs | about fame | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | ||||
| 3 | grow up | past | wonderful stories | fame | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around it=Location | ||||
| 4 | hear | past | every king | of fame | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | fill | past · passive | every king | with envy | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with envy=Instrument | ||||
| 6 | seek | past | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | mean | present | fair | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | possess | to-infinitive | fair not said here | fame | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=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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