Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 5, sentence 15
Thus was meted out punishment to the enemies of the House of Tu.
What happens: mete out · To what, where: punishment
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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 meted | advmod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 meted | aux:pass |
| 3 | meted | mete | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 meted | compound:prt |
| 5 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 meted | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 enemies | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 enemies | det |
| 8 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 meted | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 House | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 House | det |
| 11 | House | House | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 enemies | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Tu | case |
| 13 | Tu | Tu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 House | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 meted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mete out | past · passive | punishment | to the enemies of the House of Tu; thus property | tree rules |
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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