Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Tartar Joan of Arc, sentence 1
Many hundreds of years ago, there lived far away in the northern mountains of China a very beautiful girl, named Liu Chin Ting.
Who acts: Many hundreds · What happens: live, name · To what, where: northern mountains, beautiful girl
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Tartar Joan of Arc. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many hundreds), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 hundreds | amod |
| 2 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 years | case |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hundreds | nmod |
| 5 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 4 years | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 hundreds | punct |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 lived | expl |
| 8 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 away | advmod |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 lived | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 mountains | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mountains | det |
| 13 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 mountains | amod |
| 14 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lived | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 China | case |
| 16 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 mountains | nmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 girl | det |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 beautiful | advmod |
| 19 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 girl | amod |
| 20 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lived | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 named | punct |
| 22 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 girl | acl |
| 23 | Liu | Liu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 named | xcomp |
| 24 | Chin | Chin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Liu | flat |
| 25 | Ting | ting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Liu | list |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Many hundreds of years | the northern mountains of China; there | a beautiful girl advcl; away property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mountain=Location | |||
| 2 | name | participle | a beautiful girl not said here | Liu Ting xcomp | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: 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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