Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Jade Treasure, sentence 32
He knew, if he did not accept the proposal, the Prince of Chin would make war on him and take it by force, and he also felt sure he would not get the promised cities.
Who acts: Chou, proposal · What happens: know, not accept, make, take, feel, not get · To what, where: war, promised cities
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 (Chou, proposal), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 accept | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 accept | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 accept | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 accept | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 accept | advmod |
| 8 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 knew | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 proposal | det |
| 10 | proposal | proposal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 make | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Prince | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Prince | det |
| 13 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 proposal | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Chin | case |
| 15 | Chin | Chin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Prince | nmod |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 make | aux |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 accept | ccomp |
| 18 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 make | obj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 make | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 take | cc |
| 22 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 make | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 take | obj |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 force | case |
| 25 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 take | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 felt | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 felt | cc |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 felt | nsubj |
| 29 | also | also | ADV | _ | 30 felt | advmod |
| 30 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knew | conj |
| 31 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 felt | xcomp |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 get | nsubj |
| 33 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 get | aux |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 get | advmod |
| 35 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 sure | ccomp |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 cities | det |
| 37 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 cities | amod |
| 38 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 get | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Chou | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not accept a condition, not said to happen | past · do-support | Chou | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | make | would | the proposal | war | on Chou | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset war=Product | |||
| 4 | take | infinitive | the proposal not said here | war | by force | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 5 | feel | past | Chou | sure property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | not get | would | Chou | the promised cities | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer city=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | promise speech: promise | participle | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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