Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Jade Treasure, sentence 56
At first they did not believe his story and a great search was made, but they could find no trace of the treasure.
Who acts: gods · What happens: not believe, make, find · To what, where: story, great search, trace
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 (gods), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 first | case |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 believe | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 believe | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 believe | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 believe | advmod |
| 6 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 story | nmod:poss |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 believe | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 made | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 search | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 search | amod |
| 12 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 made | aux:pass |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 believe | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 find | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 find | cc |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 find | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 find | aux |
| 19 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 believe | parataxis |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 trace | det |
| 21 | trace | trace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 find | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 treasure | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 treasure | det |
| 24 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 trace | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not believe | past · do-support | gods = god | Prince's story | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | make | past · passive | a great search | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 3 | find | could | gods = god | no trace of the treasure | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trace=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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