Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 95
I am a criminal, under sentence of the government, a man whose very name has been changed.”
Who acts: I · What happens: be, change, sentence · To what, where: criminal, name, government
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 criminal | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 criminal | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 criminal | det |
| 4 | criminal | criminal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sentence | punct |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 7 sentence | case |
| 7 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 criminal | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 government | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 government | det |
| 10 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sentence | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 man | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 criminal | appos |
| 14 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 16 name | nmod:poss |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 name | advmod |
| 16 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 changed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 changed | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 changed | aux:pass |
| 19 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 man | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 man | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 criminal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | a criminal | sentence of the government appos; a man appos | tree rules | |||
| 2 | change | present · perfect · passive | name | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | sentence | the government | nom sentence «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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