Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 22
His young wife, Yü Yüch Ying, was very beautiful, according to tradition in song and story one of the most beautiful in all the Empire; not only noted for her beauty of face and form, but even more beautiful character.
Who acts: young wife · What happens: be, accord, not note
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 (young wife), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 wife | nmod:poss |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wife | amod |
| 3 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 beautiful | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Ying | punct |
| 5 | Yü | Yü | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Ying | compound |
| 6 | Yüch | Yüch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Yü | flat |
| 7 | Ying | Ying | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wife | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wife | punct |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 beautiful | cop |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 beautiful | advmod |
| 11 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tradition | punct |
| 13 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 tradition | case |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 according | fixed |
| 15 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 beautiful | parataxis |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 song | case |
| 17 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tradition | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 story | cc |
| 19 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tradition | conj |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 story | flat |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 beautiful | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 beautiful | det |
| 23 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 24 beautiful | advmod |
| 24 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 one | acl:relcl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 Empire | case |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 Empire | det:predet |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Empire | det |
| 28 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 beautiful | obl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 noted | punct |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 noted | advmod |
| 31 | only | only | ADV | _ | 32 noted | advmod |
| 32 | noted | note | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 tradition | conj |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 beauty | case |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 35 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 noted | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 face | case |
| 37 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 beauty | nmod |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 form | cc |
| 39 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 beauty | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 character | punct |
| 41 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 45 character | cc |
| 42 | even | even | ADV | _ | 43 more | advmod |
| 43 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 44 beautiful | advmod |
| 44 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 character | amod |
| 45 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 beautiful | parataxis |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 beautiful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | son's young wife | tradition in song and story parataxis; beautiful character parataxis; beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | not note | participle | son's young wife not said here | for Ying's beauty of face and form | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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