Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 80
She had not been allowed to see him in prison, though she had used every means possible.
Who acts: news, every · What happens: not allow, see, use, mean · To what, where: news, banishment, prison
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 (news, every), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 allowed | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 allowed | advmod |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 allowed | aux:pass |
| 5 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 allowed | xcomp |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 see | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 prison | case |
| 10 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 used | punct |
| 12 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 15 used | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 used | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 used | aux |
| 15 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 allowed | conj |
| 16 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 means | nsubj |
| 17 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 used | parataxis |
| 18 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 means | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 allowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not allow | past · perfect · passive | news | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | news not said here | banishment | prison | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | use | past · perfect | news | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | mean | present | every | possible property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V 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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