Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 3
This man, Yen Sung, was the most powerful man in the Empire at that time, and also one of the most unscrupulous.
Who acts: man · What happens: be · To what, where: powerful man, Empire
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 (man), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 man | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Yen | punct |
| 4 | Yen | Yen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 man | appos |
| 5 | Sung | Sung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Yen | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 man | punct |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 man | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 9 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 10 powerful | advmod |
| 10 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Empire | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Empire | det |
| 14 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 man | nmod |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 time | case |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 time | det |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 man | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 one | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 one | cc |
| 20 | also | also | ADV | _ | 21 one | advmod |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 man | conj |
| 22 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 25 unscrupulous | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 unscrupulous | det |
| 24 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 25 unscrupulous | advmod |
| 25 | unscrupulous | unscrupulous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 one | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this man | the powerful man | the Empire | time | one conj | 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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