Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 12

The year little Ting Lang was twelve the display of the Lantern Feast, the fifteenth of the first month, was most beautiful, and among all displays none exceeded Yen Sung’s.

Who acts: year, display, none · What happens: be, exceed, display · To what, where: twelve, Yen Sung, Lantern Feast

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 (year, display, none), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 year	det
2	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 twelve	nsubj
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Ting	amod
4	Ting	Ting	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 year	appos
5	Lang	Lang	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Ting	flat
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 twelve	cop
7	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 beautiful	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 display	det
9	display	display	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 beautiful	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 Feast	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Feast	det
12	Lantern	Lantern	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Feast	compound
13	Feast	Feast	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 display	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fifteenth	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fifteenth	det
16	fifteenth	fifteenth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Feast	appos
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 month	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 month	det
19	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	20 month	amod
20	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fifteenth	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 display	punct
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 beautiful	cop
23	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	24 beautiful	advmod
24	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 exceeded	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 exceeded	cc
27	among	among	ADP	_	29 displays	case
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 displays	det
29	displays	display	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 exceeded	obl
30	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	31 exceeded	nsubj
31	exceeded	exceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 beautiful	conj
32	Yen	Yen	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Sung	compound
33	Sung	Sung	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 exceeded	obj
34	’s	's	PART	_	33 Sung	case
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 beautiful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the year	twelve		tree rules
2	is	past	the display of the Lantern Feast		beautiful property	tree rules
3	exceed	past	none	Yen Sung	among all displays	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sung=Theme
4	display			the Lantern Feast		nom display «communication 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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 12

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 12