Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Jade Treasure, sentence 46
Immediately a servant was sent to bring the jade and at the command of the Prince handed it to the Minister of Chou, who, on feeling it once more in his hand, put it in his bosom and sprang to his feet.
Who acts: servant, minister · What happens: send, bring, hand, feel, put, spring · To what, where: servant, jade, command, hand, bosom, feet · 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 (servant, 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 | Immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 5 sent | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 servant | det |
| 3 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sent | aux:pass |
| 5 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 bring | mark |
| 7 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sent | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 jade | det |
| 9 | jade | jade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bring | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 handed | cc |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 command | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 command | det |
| 13 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 handed | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Prince | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Prince | det |
| 16 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 command | nmod |
| 17 | handed | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bring | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 handed | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Minister | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Minister | det |
| 21 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 feeling | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Chou | case |
| 23 | Chou | Chou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Minister | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 feeling | punct |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 feeling | nsubj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 feeling | punct |
| 27 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 28 feeling | mark |
| 28 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 handed | conj |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 feeling | obj |
| 30 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 31 more | advmod |
| 31 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 28 feeling | advmod |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 hand | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 hand | nmod:poss |
| 34 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 feeling | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 put | punct |
| 36 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 feeling | advcl |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 put | obj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 bosom | case |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 bosom | nmod:poss |
| 40 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 put | obl |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 sprang | cc |
| 42 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 handed | conj |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 feet | case |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 feet | nmod:poss |
| 45 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 sprang | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past · passive | a servant | immediately property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bring | to-infinitive | a servant not said here | the jade | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent jade=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hand | past | a servant not said here | jade | the command of the Prince | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 4 | feel | gerund | jade | minister's hand | to the Minister of Chou; who nsubj | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in hand=Location | |||
| 5 | put | infinitive | jade | minister's bosom | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in bosom=Destination | ||||
| 6 | spring | past | a servant not said here | minister's feet | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to foot=Destination | ||||
| 7 | command | the Prince | nom command «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 8 | bosom | minister | nom bosom «state transitive»: 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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