Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 7
Mr. Tu was appointed to superintend the distribution of famine relief in the province of Shan Tung.
What happens: appoint, superintend, distribute · To what, where: Tu, distribution, province, famine relief
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 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Tu | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Tu | Tu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 appointed | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 appointed | aux:pass |
| 4 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 superintend | mark |
| 6 | superintend | superintend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 appointed | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 distribution | det |
| 8 | distribution | distribution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 superintend | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 relief | case |
| 10 | famine | famine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 relief | compound |
| 11 | relief | relief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 distribution | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 province | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 province | det |
| 14 | province | province | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 superintend | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Shan | case |
| 16 | Shan | Shan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 province | nmod |
| 17 | Tung | Tung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Shan | flat |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 appointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appoint | past · passive | Tu Mr. | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | superintend | to-infinitive | the distribution of famine relief | the province of Shan | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent distribution=Theme | ||||
| 3 | distribute | famine relief | nom distribution «cognition 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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