Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 1
In the reign of Chia Ching, Emperor of China from 1522 to 1537 A.D., there lived in Peking a powerful official by the name of Tu (“Du”).
Who acts: powerful official · What happens: live, name · To what, where: reign, Tu
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (powerful official), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 reign | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 reign | det |
| 3 | reign | reign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lived | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Ching | case |
| 5 | Chia | Chia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Ching | compound |
| 6 | Ching | Ching | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 reign | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Emperor | punct |
| 8 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Ching | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 China | case |
| 10 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Emperor | nmod |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 1522 | case |
| 12 | 1522 | 1522 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 reign | nmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 1537 | case |
| 14 | 1537 | 1537 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 1522 | nmod |
| 15 | A.D | A.D | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 1537 | nmod:unmarked |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reign | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 reign | punct |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 lived | expl |
| 19 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 Peking | case |
| 21 | Peking | Peking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 lived | obl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 official | det |
| 23 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 official | amod |
| 24 | official | official | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lived | nsubj |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 name | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 name | det |
| 27 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 official | nmod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Tu | case |
| 29 | Tu | Tu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 name | nmod |
| 30 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 32 Du | punct |
| 31 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 Du | punct |
| 32 | Du | Du | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Tu | appos |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 Du | punct |
| 34 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 32 Du | punct |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a powerful official by the name of Tu | the reign of Chia Ching from 1522 to 1537 A.D; there | in Peking | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in reign=Location | |||
| 2 | name | Tu | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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