Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Jade Treasure, sentence 57
The Prince of Chin was terribly angry and commanded that the minister be killed; then, for fear of the Prince of Chou, he allowed him to depart to his home and country, hoping that the fortunes of war would bring the desired jewel into his possession.
Who acts: Prince, fortunes · What happens: be, command, kill, allow, depart, hope · To what, where: minister, home, desired jewel, possession, Prince · 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 (Prince, fortunes), 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 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 angry | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Chin | case |
| 4 | Chin | Chin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Prince | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 angry | cop |
| 6 | terribly | terribly | ADV | _ | 7 angry | advmod |
| 7 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 commanded | cc |
| 9 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 angry | conj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 killed | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 minister | det |
| 12 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 killed | aux:pass |
| 14 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 commanded | advcl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 allowed | punct |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 allowed | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 then | punct |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 fear | case |
| 19 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 allowed | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Prince | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Prince | det |
| 22 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 fear | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Chou | case |
| 24 | Chou | Chou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Prince | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fear | punct |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 allowed | nsubj |
| 27 | allowed | allow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 angry | conj |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 allowed | iobj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 depart | mark |
| 30 | depart | depart | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 allowed | xcomp |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 home | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 home | nmod:poss |
| 33 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 depart | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 country | cc |
| 35 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 home | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 hoping | punct |
| 37 | hoping | hope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 allowed | advcl |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 44 bring | mark |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 fortunes | det |
| 40 | fortunes | fortune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 bring | nsubj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 war | case |
| 42 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 fortunes | nmod |
| 43 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 bring | aux |
| 44 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 hoping | ccomp |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 jewel | det |
| 46 | desired | desire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 47 jewel | amod |
| 47 | jewel | jewel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 bring | obj |
| 48 | into | into | ADP | _ | 50 possession | case |
| 49 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 possession | nmod:poss |
| 50 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 bring | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Prince of Chin | angry, terribly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | command | past | the Prince of Chin not said here | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | kill | infinitive · passive | the minister | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | allow | past | Prince | minister | then | for fear of the Prince of Chou | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||
| 5 | depart not said to happen | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | Prince's home and country | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to home=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | hope | gerund | Prince not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | bring | would | the fortunes of war | the desired jewel | Prince's possession | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent jewel=Theme into possession=Destination | |||
| 8 | desire | participle | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 9 | fear | the Prince of Chou | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 10 | possess | Prince | nom possession «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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