Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Jade Treasure, sentence 47
Putting his back against a pillar, he said, “Great Prince, you think to deceive my master, the very Great Prince of Chou; you do not intend to give him the twelve cities.
Who acts: minister, you · What happens: put, say, think, deceive, not intend, give · To what, where: back, pillar, master, twelve cities, minister · 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 (minister, you), 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 | Putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | advcl |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 back | nmod:poss |
| 3 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Putting | obj |
| 4 | against | against | ADP | _ | 6 pillar | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 pillar | det |
| 6 | pillar | pillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Putting | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Putting | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Prince | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Prince | punct |
| 12 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Prince | amod |
| 13 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 think | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 think | nsubj |
| 16 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 deceive | mark |
| 18 | deceive | deceive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 think | ccomp |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 master | nmod:poss |
| 20 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 deceive | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Prince | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Prince | det |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 Great | advmod |
| 24 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Prince | amod |
| 25 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 master | appos |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Chou | case |
| 27 | Chou | Chou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Prince | nmod |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 intend | punct |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 intend | nsubj |
| 30 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 intend | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 intend | advmod |
| 32 | intend | intend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | conj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 give | mark |
| 34 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 intend | xcomp |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 give | iobj |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 cities | det |
| 37 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 cities | nummod |
| 38 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 give | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | gerund | minister not said here | minister's back | a pillar | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent back=Theme against pillar=Destination | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | minister | Great Prince ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | present | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | deceive in a quote | to-infinitive | my master | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Patient | |||||
| 5 | not intend in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | give not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | the twelve cities | minister | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient city=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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