Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 59
He was noted as a man of great ability and as an honest and upright minister.
What happens: note · To what, where: feast
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: 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 noted | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 noted | aux:pass |
| 3 | noted | note | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 man | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 noted | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 ability | case |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ability | amod |
| 9 | ability | ability | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 man | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 minister | cc |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 minister | case |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 minister | det |
| 13 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 minister | amod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 upright | cc |
| 15 | upright | upright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 honest | conj |
| 16 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ability | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 noted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | note | past · passive | feast | as a man of great ability and a honest minister | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
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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