Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 103
Mr. Tu was much overcome; the temptation to a life of luxury after his suffering had been too great, and after his marriage to the beautiful daughter of the “House of Hu” he did not dare to tell of the brave, true-hearted wife and mother in the city of Peking.
Who acts: temptation, Tu · What happens: overcome, be, not dare, not tell, suffer, marry · To what, where: Tu, city · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (temptation, Tu), 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 | 5 overcome | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 overcome | aux:pass |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 overcome | advmod |
| 5 | overcome | overcome | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 overcome | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 temptation | det |
| 8 | temptation | temptation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 great | nsubj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 life | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 life | det |
| 11 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 temptation | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 luxury | case |
| 13 | luxury | luxury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 life | nmod |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 16 suffering | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 suffering | nmod:poss |
| 16 | suffering | suffering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 temptation | nmod |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 great | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 great | cop |
| 19 | too | too | ADV | _ | 20 great | advmod |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 overcome | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 dare | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 dare | cc |
| 23 | after | after | ADP | _ | 25 marriage | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 25 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 dare | obl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 daughter | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 daughter | det |
| 28 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 daughter | amod |
| 29 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 marriage | nmod |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 House | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 House | det |
| 32 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 House | punct |
| 33 | House | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 daughter | nmod |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Hu | case |
| 35 | Hu | Hu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 House | nmod |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 marriage | punct |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 dare | nsubj |
| 38 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 dare | aux |
| 39 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 40 dare | advmod |
| 40 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 overcome | parataxis |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 tell | mark |
| 42 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 dare | xcomp |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 wife | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 wife | det |
| 45 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 wife | amod |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 brave | punct |
| 47 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 hearted | amod |
| 48 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 47 true | punct |
| 49 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 wife | amod |
| 50 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 tell | obl |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 mother | cc |
| 52 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 wife | conj |
| 53 | in | in | ADP | _ | 55 city | case |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 city | det |
| 55 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 tell | obl |
| 56 | of | of | ADP | _ | 57 Peking | case |
| 57 | Peking | Peking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 55 city | nmod |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 overcome | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overcome | past · passive | Tu Mr. | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past · perfect | the temptation to a life of luxury after Tu's suffering | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not dare | past · do-support | Tu | after Tu's marriage to the beautiful daughter of the House of Hu | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | not tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | Tu not said here | the city of Peking | of the brave hearted wife and mother | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | suffer | Tu | nom suffering «state intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | marry | Tu | to the beautiful daughter of the House of Hu | nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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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