Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 57
Ting Lang’s writing was pronounced perfect by the Emperor, the style most elegant.
Who acts: Emperor, Lang · What happens: pronounce, write · To what, where: Ting 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 (Emperor, Lang), 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 | 4 writing | compound |
| 2 | Lang | Lang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 writing | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 Lang | case |
| 4 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pronounced | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 pronounced | aux:pass |
| 6 | pronounced | pronounce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pronounced | xcomp |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 Emperor | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Emperor | det |
| 10 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 pronounced | obl:agent |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 style | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 style | det |
| 13 | style | style | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Emperor | appos |
| 14 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 15 elegant | advmod |
| 15 | elegant | elegant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 style | amod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pronounced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pronounce | past · passive | the Emperor | Lang's Ting writing | perfect property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | write | Lang | nom writing «act 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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