Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Jade Treasure, sentence 53
The minister, Lui Hsiang Jui, folded it in a paper and gave it to him.
Who acts: minister · What happens: fold, give · To what, where: court, paper, minister
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 minister | det |
| 2 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 folded | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Hsiang | punct |
| 4 | Lui | Lui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Hsiang | compound |
| 5 | Hsiang | Hsiang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 minister | appos |
| 6 | Jui | Jui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Hsiang | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 minister | punct |
| 8 | folded | fold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 folded | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 paper | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 paper | det |
| 12 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 folded | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gave | cc |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 folded | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 folded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fold | past | the minister | court | a paper | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 2 | give | past | the minister not said here | court | minister | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to he=Recipient |
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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