Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 5, sentence 29
It was here many Christians were taken, tried, and sentenced to death.
What happens: take, try, sentence · To what, where: It
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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 taken | aux:pass |
| 3 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 taken | advmod |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Christians | amod |
| 5 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 taken | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 taken | aux:pass |
| 7 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tried | punct |
| 9 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 taken | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sentenced | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sentenced | cc |
| 12 | sentenced | sentence | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 taken | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 death | case |
| 14 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sentenced | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · passive | It | here | many Christians nsubj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | try | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | sentence | participle | to death | 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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