Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Jade Treasure, sentence 37
After the feasting and festivities were over he presented the jade with great reverence and asked for the twelve cities.
Who acts: Chin · What happens: be, ask
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 (Chin), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 feasting | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 feasting | det |
| 3 | feasting | feasting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 presented | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 festivities | cc |
| 5 | festivities | festivity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 feasting | conj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 presented | cop |
| 7 | over | over | SCONJ | _ | 9 presented | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 presented | nsubj |
| 9 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 jade | det |
| 11 | jade | jade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 presented | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 reverence | case |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 reverence | amod |
| 14 | reverence | reverence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 jade | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 asked | cc |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 presented | conj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 cities | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cities | det |
| 19 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 cities | nummod |
| 20 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 asked | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 presented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Chin | after the feasting and festivities | the jade obj; present property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Chin not said here | for the twelve cities | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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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