Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 53
(At the present time, characters written by him hang in the Hall of Classics in Peking as a model of perfect writing.)
Who acts: characters · What happens: write, hang, model · To what, where: characters, Hall, perfect writing
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 (characters), 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 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 hang | punct |
| 2 | At | at | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 4 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hang | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 time | punct |
| 7 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hang | nsubj |
| 8 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 characters | acl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 written | obl |
| 11 | hang | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Hall | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Hall | det |
| 14 | Hall | Hall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 hang | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Classics | case |
| 16 | Classics | classic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 Hall | nmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 Peking | case |
| 18 | Peking | Peking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Classics | nmod |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 model | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 model | det |
| 21 | model | model | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hang | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 writing | case |
| 23 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 writing | amod |
| 24 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 model | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 hang | punct |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 hang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | participle | characters not said here | by enemy | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hang | present | characters | the Hall of Classics in Peking | time | as a model of perfect writing | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hall=Location | ||
| 3 | model | perfect writing | nom model «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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