Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 58
This mother, Hu Yüch Ying, was also a very beautiful character, and her sweet, gentle manners won the heart of Ting Lang and he believed her word.
Who acts: mother, sweet gentle manners, Ting · What happens: be, win, believe, word · To what, where: beautiful character, heart, word
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, sweet gentle manners, Ting), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 mother | det |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 character | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Hu | punct |
| 4 | Hu | Hu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 mother | appos |
| 5 | Yüch | Yüch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Hu | flat |
| 6 | Ying | Ying | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Hu | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 mother | punct |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 character | cop |
| 9 | also | also | ADV | _ | 13 character | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 character | det |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 beautiful | advmod |
| 12 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 character | amod |
| 13 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 won | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 won | cc |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 manners | nmod:poss |
| 17 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 manners | amod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sweet | punct |
| 19 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 manners | amod |
| 20 | manners | manners | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 21 won | nsubj |
| 21 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 character | parataxis |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 heart | det |
| 23 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 won | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Ting | case |
| 25 | Ting | Ting | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 heart | nmod |
| 26 | Lang | Lang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Ting | flat |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 believed | cc |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 believed | nsubj |
| 29 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 won | conj |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 word | nmod:poss |
| 31 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 believed | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 character | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this mother | a beautiful character | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | win | past | mother's sweet gentle manners | the heart of Ting | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | believe | past | Ting | mother's word | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | word | mother | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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