Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Tartar Joan of Arc, sentence 25
The engagement was long and severe, but resulted in the defeat of the Chinese leader, who was made a prisoner and carried to the home of Chin Ting to be beheaded.
Who acts: engagement · What happens: be, result, make, carry, behead, defeat · To what, where: defeat, Chinese leader, home
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 (engagement), 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 engagement | det |
| 2 | engagement | engagement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 long | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 long | cop |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 severe | cc |
| 6 | severe | severe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 long | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 resulted | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 resulted | cc |
| 9 | resulted | result | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 long | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 defeat | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 defeat | det |
| 12 | defeat | defeat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 resulted | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 leader | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 leader | det |
| 15 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 leader | amod |
| 16 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 defeat | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 made | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 made | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 made | aux:pass |
| 20 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 leader | acl:relcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 prisoner | det |
| 22 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 made | xcomp |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 carried | cc |
| 24 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 made | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 home | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 home | det |
| 27 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 carried | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Ting | case |
| 29 | Chin | Chin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Ting | compound |
| 30 | Ting | ting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 home | nmod |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 beheaded | mark |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 beheaded | aux:pass |
| 33 | beheaded | behead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 Ting | acl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the engagement | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the engagement not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | result | participle | the engagement not said here | the defeat of the Chinese leader | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in defeat=Location | ||||
| 4 | make | past · passive | the Chinese leader | a prisoner xcomp | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 5 | carry | past | the home of Chin Ting | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to home=Destination | |||||
| 6 | behead | to-infinitive · passive | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP» | ||||||
| 7 | defeat | the Chinese leader | nom defeat «event transitive»: of=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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