Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Jade Treasure, sentence 48
With my life I will protect this treasure of my country, the pride of my Prince, and if any one attempts to take it from me I will dash it to the ground and destroy it first.”
Who acts: I, one · What happens: protect, attempt, take, dash, destroy, treasure · To what, where: treasure, pride, country, Prince
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 (I, one), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 life | case |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 life | nmod:poss |
| 3 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 protect | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 protect | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 protect | aux |
| 6 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 treasure | det |
| 8 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 protect | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 country | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 country | nmod:poss |
| 11 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 treasure | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pride | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 pride | det |
| 14 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 treasure | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Prince | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 Prince | nmod:poss |
| 17 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 pride | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 dash | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 dash | cc |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 attempts | mark |
| 21 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 one | det |
| 22 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 attempts | nsubj |
| 23 | attempts | attempt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 dash | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 take | mark |
| 25 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 attempts | xcomp |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 take | obj |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 me | case |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 take | obl |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 dash | nsubj |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 dash | aux |
| 31 | dash | dash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 protect | conj |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 dash | obj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 ground | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 ground | det |
| 35 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 dash | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 destroy | cc |
| 37 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 protect | conj |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 destroy | obj |
| 39 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 37 destroy | advmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 protect | punct |
| 41 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 protect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | protect | future | I | this treasure of my country and the pride of my Prince | with my life | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | attempt a condition, not said to happen | present | any one | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | any one not said here | pride | from me | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme from i=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | dash | future | I | pride | to the ground result | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient to ground=Result | |||
| 5 | destroy | infinitive | I not said here | pride | first property | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 6 | treasure | my country | nom treasure «possession transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | pride | my Prince | nom pride «feeling 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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