Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Jade Treasure, sentence 3
At that time there was constant conflict between the many petty states, or kingdoms, each striving for the first place.
Who acts: each · What happens: be, strive · To what, where: constant conflict
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 (each), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 conflict | obl |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 was | expl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 conflict | cop |
| 6 | constant | constant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 conflict | amod |
| 7 | conflict | conflict | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | between | between | ADP | _ | 12 states | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 states | det |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 states | amod |
| 11 | petty | petty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 states | compound |
| 12 | states | state | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 conflict | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 kingdoms | punct |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 kingdoms | cc |
| 15 | kingdoms | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 states | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 striving | punct |
| 17 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 striving | nsubj |
| 18 | striving | strive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 conflict | acl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 place | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 place | det |
| 21 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 22 place | amod |
| 22 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 striving | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 conflict | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | constant conflict | time | between the many petty states or kingdoms | tree rules | |||
| 2 | strive | gerund | each | constant conflict not said here | for the first place | 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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