Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Tartar Joan of Arc, sentence 22
Meanwhile General Kao had decided to give battle and punish this woman.
What happens: decide, give, punish · To what, where: Meanwhile, battle, woman
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: 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 | Meanwhile | Meanwhile | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 decided | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | General | General | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Meanwhile | amod |
| 3 | Kao | Kao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Meanwhile | flat |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 decided | aux |
| 5 | decided | decide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 give | mark |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 decided | xcomp |
| 8 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 punish | cc |
| 10 | punish | punish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 give | conj |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 woman | det |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 punish | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past · perfect · passive | Meanwhile | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: subject=Co-Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | battle | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Theme | |||||
| 3 | punish | infinitive | this woman | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=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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