Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 5, sentence 23
The place where the wicked Nien Chi lived is the site of the American Board Mission in Peking and was bought by them over forty years ago.
Who acts: wicked Nien Chi, place, father · What happens: live, be, buy · To what, where: site
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: who acts (wicked Nien Chi, place, father), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 place | det |
| 2 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 site | nsubj |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 lived | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Chi | det |
| 5 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Chi | amod |
| 6 | Nien | Nien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Chi | compound |
| 7 | Chi | Chi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 lived | nsubj |
| 8 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 place | acl:relcl |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 site | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 site | det |
| 11 | site | site | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Mission | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Mission | det |
| 14 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Mission | amod |
| 15 | Board | Board | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Mission | compound |
| 16 | Mission | Mission | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 site | nmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 Peking | case |
| 18 | Peking | Peking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Mission | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 bought | cc |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 bought | aux:pass |
| 21 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 site | conj |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 them | case |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 bought | obl |
| 24 | over | over | ADP | _ | 26 years | case |
| 25 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 years | nummod |
| 26 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 bought | obl |
| 27 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 26 years | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 site | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the wicked Nien Chi | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | the place | the site | of the American Board Mission in Peking | tree rules | |||
| 3 | buy | past · passive | father | year | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=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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