Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 112
With great luxury was the palace prepared, for all rejoiced at the downfall of the great Yen Sung, and all desired to do homage to the great son of the old official house of Tu.
Who acts: palace · What happens: be, prepare, rejoice, desire, do · To what, where: palace, all, downfall, homage
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 (palace), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 luxury | case |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 luxury | amod |
| 3 | luxury | luxury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 palace | obl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 palace | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 palace | det |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 palace | acl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 rejoiced | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 rejoiced | mark |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 rejoiced | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 prepared | conj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 downfall | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 downfall | det |
| 14 | downfall | downfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rejoiced | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Sung | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Sung | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Sung | amod |
| 18 | Yen | Yen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Sung | compound |
| 19 | Sung | Sung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 downfall | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 desired | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 desired | cc |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 desired | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | desired | desire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 palace | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 do | mark |
| 25 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 desired | xcomp |
| 26 | homage | homage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 do | obj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 son | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 son | det |
| 29 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 son | amod |
| 30 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 do | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 house | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 house | det |
| 33 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 house | amod |
| 34 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 house | amod |
| 35 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 son | nmod |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 Tu | case |
| 37 | Tu | Tu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 house | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 palace | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the palace | with great luxury | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | prepare | participle | the palace not said here | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | rejoice | participle · passive | all | the downfall of the great Yen Sung | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | desire | participle · passive | the palace not said here | all | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | the palace not said here | homage | to the great son of the old official house of Tu | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homage=Eventuality |
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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