Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Jade Treasure, sentence 33
In his despair he called his most trusted minister, Lui Hsiang Jui, who, after hearing the demand, said, “My great and mighty Prince, do not be troubled or anxious; let me take the treasure to the Prince of Chin.
Who acts: Chou, Lui · What happens: call, trust, hear, say, not be, be · To what, where: trusted minister, demand, despair, Lui, treasure, Prince · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Lui), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 despair | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 despair | nmod:poss |
| 3 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 said | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 called | nsubj |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 despair | acl:relcl |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 minister | nmod:poss |
| 7 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 8 trusted | advmod |
| 8 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 minister | amod |
| 9 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 called | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 despair | punct |
| 11 | Lui | Lui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 said | nsubj |
| 12 | Hsiang | Hsiang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Lui | flat |
| 13 | Jui | Jui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Lui | flat |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hearing | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 hearing | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hearing | punct |
| 17 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 18 hearing | mark |
| 18 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 Lui | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 demand | det |
| 20 | demand | demand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hearing | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Lui | punct |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Prince | punct |
| 24 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 Prince | punct |
| 25 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 Prince | nmod:poss |
| 26 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Prince | amod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 mighty | cc |
| 28 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 great | conj |
| 29 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 said | ccomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 troubled | punct |
| 31 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 34 troubled | aux |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 troubled | advmod |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 troubled | cop |
| 34 | troubled | troubled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Prince | parataxis |
| 35 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 36 anxious | cc |
| 36 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 troubled | conj |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 let | punct |
| 38 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 said | ccomp |
| 39 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 let | obj |
| 40 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 let | xcomp |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 treasure | det |
| 42 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 take | obj |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 Prince | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 Prince | det |
| 45 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 take | obl |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 Chin | case |
| 47 | Chin | Chin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 Prince | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | Chou | Chou's trusted minister | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent despair=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | trust | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | hear | gerund | Lui | the demand | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer demand=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Lui | Chou's despair | My great Prince ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 5 | not is in a quote | infinitive · do-support | troubled property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | be in a quote | tree rules | |||||||
| 7 | let in a quote | infinitive | Lui | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | take in a quote | infinitive | Lui not said here | the treasure | the Prince of Chin | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme to prince=Destination | |||
| 9 | despair | Chou | nom despair «state intransitive»: poss=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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