Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Jade Treasure, sentence 42
He felt sure the Prince of Chin was not to be trusted, and he must think of some plan by which he could recover the jewel.
Who acts: minister · What happens: feel, not trust, think, recover · To what, where: Prince, jewel
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 (minister), 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 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 felt | xcomp |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Prince | det |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 trusted | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Chin | case |
| 7 | Chin | Chin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Prince | nmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 trusted | aux:pass |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 trusted | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 trusted | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 trusted | aux:pass |
| 12 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sure | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 think | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 think | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 think | nsubj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 think | aux |
| 17 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 felt | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 plan | case |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 plan | det |
| 20 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 think | obl |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 recover | obl |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 recover | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 recover | aux |
| 25 | recover | recover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 plan | acl:relcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 jewel | det |
| 27 | jewel | jewel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 recover | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | minister | sure property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not trust | past · passive | the Prince of Chin | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | must | minister | of some plan | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | recover | could | minister | the jewel | by some plan | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jewel=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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