Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 18
A few days later he was secretly beheaded and his body was placed in a temple near one of the city gates.
What happens: behead, place · To what, where: punishment, body, temple
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: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 days | det |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 days | amod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 later | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 beheaded | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 beheaded | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 beheaded | aux:pass |
| 7 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 8 beheaded | advmod |
| 8 | beheaded | behead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 placed | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 body | nmod:poss |
| 11 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 placed | aux:pass |
| 13 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 beheaded | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 temple | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 temple | det |
| 16 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 placed | obl |
| 17 | near | near | ADP | _ | 18 one | case |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 placed | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 gates | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 gates | det |
| 21 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gates | compound |
| 22 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 one | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 beheaded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behead | past · passive | punishment | late, secretly property | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | place | past · passive | punishment's body | a temple | near one of the city gates | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in temple=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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