Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Jade Treasure, sentence 55
The minister said, “Tell your Great Prince I have sent it back, as I promised, to my Liege Lord.”
Who acts: minister · What happens: say, tell, send back, promise · To what, where: Great Prince, jade, Liege Lord · 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), 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 | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Tell | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Tell | punct |
| 6 | Tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 Prince | nmod:poss |
| 8 | Great | Great | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Prince | flat |
| 9 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Tell | obj |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 sent | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 sent | aux |
| 12 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 Tell | ccomp |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sent | obj |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 sent | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 promised | punct |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 promised | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 promised | nsubj |
| 18 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sent | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Lord | punct |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 Lord | case |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 Lord | nmod:poss |
| 22 | Liege | liege | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Lord | amod |
| 23 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 promised | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Tell | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the minister | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | your Great Prince | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | send back in a quote | present · perfect | the minister = minister | jade | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | promise speech: promise in a quote | past | the minister = minister | my Liege Lord | vn promise-37.13 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to lord=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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