Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 61
Her husband was taken to a temple, tried, and beheaded.
What happens: take, try, behead · To what, where: husband, temple
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Literary Glory. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 husband | nmod:poss |
| 2 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | aux:pass |
| 4 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 temple | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 temple | det |
| 7 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taken | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tried | punct |
| 9 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 beheaded | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 beheaded | cc |
| 12 | beheaded | behead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 tried | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · passive | mother's husband | a temple | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to temple=Destination | ||||
| 2 | try | past | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | behead not said to happen | participle | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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