Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 111
Then he commanded that a palace be found and put in order for the new Chuang Yuan and his brother; that in the third day all officials were to call on him and make his acquaintance.
Who acts: evil, officials · What happens: command, find, put, call, make, acquaint · To what, where: palace, order, acquaintance · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (evil, officials), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 commanded | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 commanded | nsubj |
| 3 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 found | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 palace | det |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 found | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 found | aux:pass |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 commanded | parataxis |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 put | cc |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 found | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 order | case |
| 12 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 Yuan | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Yuan | det |
| 15 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Yuan | amod |
| 16 | Chuang | Chuang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Yuan | compound |
| 17 | Yuan | Yuan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 brother | cc |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 brother | nmod:poss |
| 20 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Yuan | conj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 day | punct |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 day | nsubj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 day | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 day | det |
| 25 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 26 day | amod |
| 26 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 commanded | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 officials | det |
| 28 | officials | official | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 call | nsubj |
| 29 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 call | aux |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 call | mark |
| 31 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 day | acl:relcl |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 him | case |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 call | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 make | cc |
| 35 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 call | conj |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 acquaintance | nmod:poss |
| 37 | acquaintance | acquaintance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 make | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 commanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | command | past | evil | then; day | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | find | infinitive · passive | a palace | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 3 | put | participle | order | for the new Chuang Yuan and evil's brother | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in order=Destination | ||||
| 4 | call | past | all officials | on evil | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | make | infinitive | all officials not said here | evil's acquaintance | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset acquaintance=Product | ||||
| 6 | acquaint | evil | nom acquaintance «cognition 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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