Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 5, sentence 27
It was the underlings, servants, and Boxers, supported by the present owner, who was also a Boxer leader, who destroyed the Congregational Mission in 1900.
Who acts: palace, present owner, Boxer leader · What happens: be, support, destroy · To what, where: underlings, Boxers, Boxer leader, Congregational Mission, 1900
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 (palace, present owner, Boxer leader), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 underlings | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 underlings | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 underlings | det |
| 4 | underlings | underling | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 servants | punct |
| 6 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 underlings | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Boxers | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Boxers | cc |
| 9 | Boxers | Boxer | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 underlings | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 supported | punct |
| 11 | supported | support | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 Boxers | acl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 owner | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 owner | det |
| 14 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 owner | compound |
| 15 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 supported | obl:agent |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 leader | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 leader | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 leader | cop |
| 19 | also | also | ADV | _ | 22 leader | advmod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 leader | det |
| 21 | Boxer | boxer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 leader | compound |
| 22 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 owner | appos |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 destroyed | punct |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 destroyed | nsubj |
| 25 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 leader | acl:relcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Mission | det |
| 27 | Congregational | Congregational | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Mission | compound |
| 28 | Mission | Mission | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 destroyed | obj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 1900 | case |
| 30 | 1900 | 1900 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 destroyed | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 underlings | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | palace | the underlings and servants | Boxers nmod; servants conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | support | participle | Boxers not said here | the present owner obl:agent | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the present owner | a Boxer leader | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | destroy | past | a Boxer leader | the Congregational Mission | 1900 | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mission=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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