Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Tartar Joan of Arc, sentence 3
For long years the country had been rent by rebellions and wars.
Who acts: rebellions · What happens: rend · To what, where: country
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 (rebellions), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 years | case |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 years | amod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 rent | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 country | det |
| 5 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rent | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rent | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 rent | aux:pass |
| 8 | rent | rend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 rebellions | case |
| 10 | rebellions | rebellion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 rent | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wars | cc |
| 12 | wars | war | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 rebellions | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 rent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rend | past · perfect · passive | rebellions and wars | the country | year | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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