Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work, sentence 26
The situation was all abnormal, and Satan slew many with the poisoned darts of revenge and greed, whom he could not slay otherwise.
Who acts: situation, Satan · What happens: be, slay, poison, not slay · To what, where: many, greed
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Miss Nellie N. Russell’s Unique Work. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (situation, Satan), 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 situation | det |
| 2 | situation | situation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 abnormal | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 abnormal | cop |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 abnormal | advmod |
| 5 | abnormal | abnormal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 slew | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 slew | cc |
| 8 | Satan | Satan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 slew | nsubj |
| 9 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 abnormal | conj |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 slew | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 darts | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 darts | det |
| 13 | poisoned | poison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 darts | amod |
| 14 | darts | dart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 slew | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 revenge | case |
| 16 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 darts | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 greed | cc |
| 18 | greed | greed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 revenge | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 slay | punct |
| 20 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 slay | obj |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 slay | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 slay | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 slay | advmod |
| 24 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 greed | conj |
| 25 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 24 slay | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 abnormal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the situation | abnormal property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | slay | past | Satan | many | with the poisoned darts of revenge and greed | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent many=Patient with dart=Instrument | |||
| 3 | poison | participle | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | not slay | could | Satan | greed | otherwise property | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=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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