Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Tartar Joan of Arc, sentence 30
According to the law of the land, any officer, under orders, who married during a campaign should be beheaded.
Who acts: orders · What happens: accord, marry, behead
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 (orders), 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 | According | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 law | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 According | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 law | det |
| 4 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 beheaded | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 land | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 land | det |
| 7 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 law | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 officer | punct |
| 9 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 officer | det |
| 10 | officer | officer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 law | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 orders | punct |
| 12 | under | under | ADP | _ | 13 orders | case |
| 13 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 law | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 married | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 married | nsubj |
| 16 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 orders | acl:relcl |
| 17 | during | during | ADP | _ | 19 campaign | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 campaign | det |
| 19 | campaign | campaign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 married | obl |
| 20 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 beheaded | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 beheaded | aux:pass |
| 22 | beheaded | behead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 beheaded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | marry | past | orders | during a campaign | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | behead | should · passive | accord the law of the land and any officer and orders | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP» |
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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