Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 131
In beautiful robes and special official cap, that told of his high rank, with all the glory of his position, she knew him; knew her boy who left her a little lad, returning to her with glory honestly won.
Who acts: that, Yü, boy, glory, position · What happens: tell, know, leave, return, win, glory · To what, where: beautiful robes, Ting, boy, Yü · 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 (that, Yü, boy, glory), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 robes | case |
| 2 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 robes | amod |
| 3 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 told | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cap | cc |
| 5 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cap | amod |
| 6 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cap | amod |
| 7 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 robes | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 robes | punct |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 told | nsubj |
| 10 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 rank | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 rank | nmod:poss |
| 13 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 rank | amod |
| 14 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 told | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 glory | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 glory | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 glory | det:predet |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 glory | det |
| 19 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 told | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 position | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 position | nmod:poss |
| 22 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 glory | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 knew | punct |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 knew | nsubj |
| 25 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 told | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 knew | obj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 knew | punct |
| 28 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 told | parataxis |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 boy | nmod:poss |
| 30 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 knew | obj |
| 31 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 left | nsubj |
| 32 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 boy | acl:relcl |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 left | obj |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 lad | det |
| 35 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 lad | amod |
| 36 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 left | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 returning | punct |
| 38 | returning | return | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 knew | advcl |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 her | case |
| 40 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 returning | obl |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 glory | case |
| 42 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 returning | obl |
| 43 | honestly | honestly | ADV | _ | 44 won | advmod |
| 44 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 glory | acl:relcl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | that | beautiful robes and special official cap | of Ting's high rank; with all glory of Ting's position | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | know | past | Yü | Ting | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | know | past | Yü's boy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | leave | past | Yü's boy | Yü | a little lad obj | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent she=Theme lad=Attribute | |||
| 5 | return | gerund | Yü | with glory | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to she=Result | ||||
| 6 | win | past | glory not said here | honestly property | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | glory | Ting's position | nom glory «state intransitive»: of=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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