Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 58
At the close of the examinations a great feast was given; among those present was a powerful official by name of Hai Jui.
Who acts: present · What happens: give, be, name · To what, where: great feast, close, powerful official, Hai
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 (present), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 close | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 close | det |
| 3 | close | close | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 given | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 examinations | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 examinations | det |
| 6 | examinations | examination | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 close | nmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 feast | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 feast | amod |
| 9 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 given | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 given | aux:pass |
| 11 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 official | punct |
| 13 | among | among | ADP | _ | 15 present | case |
| 14 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 present | det |
| 15 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 official | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 official | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 official | det |
| 18 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 official | amod |
| 19 | official | official | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 given | obl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 name | case |
| 21 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 official | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Hai | case |
| 23 | Hai | Hai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 name | nmod |
| 24 | Jui | Jui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Hai | flat |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | a great feast | the close of the examinations | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: subject=Theme at close=Asset | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | that present | a powerful official | by name of Hai | tree rules | |||
| 3 | name | Hai | nom name «communication 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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