Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 2
Unknown to him he had a great enemy whose daughter was one of the wives of the Emperor and who was himself the teacher of the Emperor.
Who acts: Peking, daughter, Emperor · What happens: have, be · To what, where: great enemy, one, Peking
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 (Peking, daughter, Emperor), 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 | Unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 him | case |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Unknown | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Unknown | parataxis |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 enemy | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 enemy | amod |
| 8 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 9 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 10 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 10 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 one | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 one | cop |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 enemy | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 wives | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wives | det |
| 15 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 one | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Emperor | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Emperor | det |
| 18 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 wives | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 himself | cc |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 himself | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 himself | cop |
| 22 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 Emperor | nmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 teacher | det |
| 24 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 himself | nsubj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Emperor | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Emperor | det |
| 27 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 teacher | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Unknown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Peking | a great enemy | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | daughter | one | of the wives of the Emperor | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a | past | the Emperor | Peking | the teacher of the Emperor nsubj | tree rules |
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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