Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Tartar Joan of Arc, sentence 27
His admiration for his conqueror was so evident in his looks and words, that he not only disarmed her anger but won her heart.
Who acts: admiration, general, Ting · What happens: be, not disarm, win, admire, anger · To what, where: looks, anger, heart
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 (admiration, general, Ting), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 admiration | nmod:poss |
| 2 | admiration | admiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 evident | nsubj |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 conqueror | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 conqueror | nmod:poss |
| 5 | conqueror | conqueror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 admiration | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 evident | cop |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 evident | advmod |
| 8 | evident | evident | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 looks | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 looks | nmod:poss |
| 11 | looks | look | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 evident | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 words | cc |
| 13 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 looks | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 disarmed | punct |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 disarmed | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 disarmed | nsubj |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 disarmed | advmod |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 disarmed | advmod |
| 19 | disarmed | disarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 evident | conj |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 anger | nmod:poss |
| 21 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 disarmed | obj |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 won | cc |
| 23 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 disarmed | conj |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 heart | nmod:poss |
| 25 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 won | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 evident | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | general's admiration for general's conqueror | general's looks and words | evident property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not disarm | participle | general | Ting's anger | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus anger=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | win | past | general not said here | Ting's heart | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | admire | general | for general's conqueror | nom admiration «feeling transitive»: poss=agent for=obl | |||||
| 5 | anger | Ting | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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