Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Jade Treasure, sentence 5
One day a poor workman found in the mountains a piece of jade in the rough.
Who acts: poor workman · What happens: find · To what, where: piece, mountains
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 (poor workman), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 workman | det |
| 4 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 workman | amod |
| 5 | workman | workman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | nsubj |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 mountains | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mountains | det |
| 9 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 found | obl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 piece | det |
| 11 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 jade | case |
| 13 | jade | jade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 piece | nmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 rough | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rough | det |
| 16 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 found | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | participle | a poor workman | a piece of jade | the mountains | day | in the rough | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Topic |
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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