Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 5, sentence 14
His steward, Nien Chi, was tried at the same time, and was sentenced to be burned alive in the street,—“A fine lamp for one dark night.”
What happens: try, sentence, burn · To what, where: steward, fine lamp, street
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 5. 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 steward | nmod:poss |
| 2 | steward | steward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tried | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Nien | punct |
| 4 | Nien | Nien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 steward | appos |
| 5 | Chi | Chi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Nien | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 steward | punct |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 tried | aux:pass |
| 8 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 time | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 time | det |
| 11 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 time | amod |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tried | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sentenced | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sentenced | cc |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sentenced | aux:pass |
| 16 | sentenced | sentence | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 tried | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 burned | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 burned | aux:pass |
| 19 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 sentenced | xcomp |
| 20 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 burned | xcomp |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 street | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 street | det |
| 23 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 burned | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 lamp | punct |
| 25 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 lamp | punct |
| 26 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 lamp | punct |
| 27 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 lamp | det |
| 28 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 lamp | amod |
| 29 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sentenced | obl |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 night | case |
| 31 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 night | nummod |
| 32 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 night | amod |
| 33 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 lamp | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 tried | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past · passive | History's steward | time | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | sentence | past · passive | a fine lamp for one dark night | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | burn | to-infinitive · passive | the street | alive property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: in street=Location |
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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