Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 108

I give to Hai Jui power to strip you of all rank, and hand you over to the Board of Punishments.

Who acts: I · What happens: give, strip, hand over · To what, where: Jui power, you, Board

This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 4. 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	2 give	nsubj
2	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 power	case
4	Hai	Hai	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 power	nsubj
5	Jui	Jui	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 power	compound
6	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 give	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 strip	mark
8	strip	strip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 give	advcl
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 strip	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 rank	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 rank	det
12	rank	rank	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 strip	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hand	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 hand	cc
15	hand	hand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 give	conj
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 hand	obj
17	over	over	ADP	_	15 hand	compound:prt
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 Board	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Board	det
20	Board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hand	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 Punishments	case
22	Punishments	punishment	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 Board	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	present	I		Jui power Hai			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to power=Recipient
2	strip	to-infinitive	I not said here	you			of all rank	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent you=Theme of rank=Initial_Location
3	hand over	infinitive	I not said here	you		the Board of Punishments		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to board=Destination

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 4, sentence 108

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 108