Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Jade Treasure, sentence 58
He himself did not live to secure it, but long years afterward one of his descendants overthrew the Kingdom of Chou and the much desired and long struggled for jade treasure, “The joy of the gods,” came to the Kingdom of Chin.
Who acts: Prince, one, joy · What happens: not live, secure, overthrow, desire, struggle, come · To what, where: jewel, Kingdom, joy
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, one, joy), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 live | nsubj |
| 2 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 1 He | nmod:unmarked |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 live | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 live | advmod |
| 5 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 secure | mark |
| 7 | secure | secure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 live | xcomp |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 secure | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 overthrew | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 overthrew | cc |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 years | amod |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 one | nsubj |
| 13 | afterward | afterward | ADV | _ | 14 one | advmod |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 overthrew | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 descendants | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 descendants | nmod:poss |
| 17 | descendants | descendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 one | nmod |
| 18 | overthrew | overthrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 live | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Kingdom | det |
| 20 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 overthrew | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Chou | case |
| 22 | Chou | Chou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Kingdom | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 desired | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 desired | det |
| 25 | much | much | ADV | _ | 26 desired | advmod |
| 26 | desired | desire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 overthrew | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 long | cc |
| 28 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 desired | conj |
| 29 | struggled | struggle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 desired | xcomp |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 treasure | case |
| 31 | jade | jade | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 treasure | amod |
| 32 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 struggled | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 joy | punct |
| 34 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 joy | punct |
| 35 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 joy | det |
| 36 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 desired | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 gods | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 gods | det |
| 39 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 came | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 gods | punct |
| 41 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 gods | punct |
| 42 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 joy | acl:relcl |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 Kingdom | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 Kingdom | det |
| 45 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 came | obl |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 Chin | case |
| 47 | Chin | Chin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 Kingdom | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not live | past · do-support | Prince | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | secure | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | jewel | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | overthrow | past | one long years of Prince's descendants | the Kingdom of Chou | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | desire | participle | one long years of Prince's descendants not said here | the joy | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | struggle not said to happen | participle | one long years of Prince's descendants not said here | for jade treasure | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | come | past | the joy not said here | the Kingdom of Chin | of the gods | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme of god=Initial_Location to kingdom=Destination |
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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