Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 55
Ting Lang came with three hundred and fifty-nine other men who had the degree of “Chin Shib,” to be examined for “Chuang Yuan,” the highest degree in the Empire, and a degree only given to one man once in three years.
Who acts: Ting, hundred nine other men · What happens: come, have, examine, give · To what, where: degree, one man
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 (Ting, hundred nine other men), 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 | Ting | ting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 2 | Lang | Lang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ting | appos |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 men | case |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 hundred | compound |
| 6 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 men | nummod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 nine | cc |
| 8 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 nine | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 fifty | punct |
| 10 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 men | nummod |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 men | amod |
| 12 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 came | obl |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 had | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 men | acl:relcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 degree | det |
| 16 | degree | degree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 had | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Chin | case |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Chin | punct |
| 19 | Chin | Chin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 degree | nmod |
| 20 | Shib | Shib | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Chin | flat |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 examined | mark |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 examined | aux:pass |
| 25 | examined | examine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 came | advcl |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 degree | case |
| 27 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 degree | punct |
| 28 | Chuang | Chuang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 degree | nsubj |
| 29 | Yuan | Yuan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Chuang | flat |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 degree | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 degree | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 degree | det |
| 33 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 34 degree | amod |
| 34 | degree | degree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 examined | obl |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 Empire | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Empire | det |
| 37 | Empire | Empire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 degree | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 given | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 given | cc |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 degree | det |
| 41 | degree | degree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 given | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | only | only | ADV | _ | 43 given | advmod |
| 43 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 came | parataxis |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 man | case |
| 45 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 46 man | nummod |
| 46 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 given | obl |
| 47 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 43 given | advmod |
| 48 | in | in | ADP | _ | 50 years | case |
| 49 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 50 years | nummod |
| 50 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 given | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Ting | with hundred nine other men | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | hundred nine other men | the degree of Chin | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent degree=Patient | ||||
| 3 | examine | to-infinitive · passive | Ting not said here | for the highest degree Chuang in the Empire | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: for degree=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | give | participle · passive | a degree | one man | year | once property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to man=Recipient |
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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