Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Tartar Joan of Arc, sentence 19
I would stamp upon her even as I do upon the broken bits of this tablet,” as he ground them under his feet.
Who acts: I · What happens: stamp, do, break · To what, where: Ting, feet
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 stamp | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 stamp | aux |
| 3 | stamp | stamp | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 stamp | obj |
| 6 | even | even | ADV | _ | 9 do | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 do | nsubj |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 stamp | advcl |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 bits | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bits | det |
| 12 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 bits | amod |
| 13 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 do | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 tablet | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 tablet | det |
| 16 | tablet | tablet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bits | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 stamp | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 stamp | punct |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 ground | case |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 ground | nsubj |
| 21 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stamp | obl |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 ground | nmod |
| 23 | under | under | ADP | _ | 25 feet | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 feet | nmod:poss |
| 25 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stamp | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stamp | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stamp | would | I | Ting | general's feet | as ground general bits | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent her=Theme under foot=Destination | ||
| 2 | do | present | I | upon the broken bits of this tablet | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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