Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Tartar Joan of Arc, sentence 11
In every attack she was successful until the neighbouring tribes were subdued and left the little kingdom in peace, for, they said, “We cannot fight against a god!”
Who acts: Ting, tribes, We · What happens: be, subdue, leave, say, not fight · To what, where: attack, neighbouring tribes, little kingdom, peace · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Ting, tribes, We), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 attack | case |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 attack | det |
| 3 | attack | attack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 successful | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 successful | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 successful | cop |
| 6 | successful | successful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 12 subdued | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tribes | det |
| 9 | neighbouring | neighbouring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tribes | amod |
| 10 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 subdued | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 subdued | aux:pass |
| 12 | subdued | subdue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 successful | advcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 left | cc |
| 14 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 subdued | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 kingdom | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 kingdom | amod |
| 17 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 left | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 peace | case |
| 19 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 left | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 subdued | punct |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 subdued | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 said | nsubj |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 successful | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 fight | punct |
| 26 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 fight | punct |
| 27 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 fight | nsubj |
| 28 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 fight | aux |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 fight | advmod |
| 30 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 said | ccomp |
| 31 | against | against | ADP | _ | 33 god | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 god | det |
| 33 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 fight | obl |
| 34 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 30 fight | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 fight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Ting | every attack | successful property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | subdue | past · passive | the neighbouring tribes | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | leave | past | the little kingdom | peace | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme in peace=Location | ||||
| 4 | say speech: express | past | tribes = tribe | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | not fight in a quote | can | We | against a god | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: 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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