Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Jade Treasure, sentence 36
On reaching the palace of the Prince of Chin, he was welcomed with great state and pomp.
What happens: reach, welcome · To what, where: palace, Chin
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: 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 reaching | mark |
| 2 | reaching | reach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 welcomed | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 palace | det |
| 4 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reaching | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Prince | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Prince | det |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 palace | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Chin | case |
| 9 | Chin | Chin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Prince | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 reaching | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 welcomed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 welcomed | aux:pass |
| 13 | welcomed | welcome | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 state | case |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 state | amod |
| 16 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 welcomed | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 pomp | cc |
| 18 | pomp | pomp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 state | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 welcomed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | gerund | the palace of the Prince of Chin | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent palace=Theme | |||||
| 2 | welcome | past · passive | Chin | with great state and pomp | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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