Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Jade Treasure, sentence 4
An interesting story is told of one of the great treasures of the Kingdom of Chou.
What happens: tell, treasure · To what, where: interesting story, Kingdom · 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: 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 story | det |
| 2 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 story | amod |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 told | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 told | aux:pass |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 one | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 told | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 treasures | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 treasures | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 treasures | amod |
| 11 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 one | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Kingdom | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Kingdom | det |
| 14 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 treasures | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Chou | case |
| 16 | Chou | Chou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Kingdom | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | a interesting story | of one of the great treasures of the Kingdom of Chou | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | treasure | the Kingdom of Chou | nom treasure «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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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