Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Tartar Joan of Arc, sentence 31

When the Emperor heard the story of General Kao he ordered that he be degraded and at once executed, but later, as he heard more and more of the valour of the wife he had taken, he said, “If she will take the city of Yang Chow, her husband’s life shall be her reward.”

Who acts: Emperor, wife, life · What happens: hear, order, degrade, execute, take, say · To what, where: story, Emperor, wife, city, reward · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Emperor, wife, life), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 heard	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Emperor	det
3	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 ordered	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 story	det
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 Kao	case
8	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Kao	nmod:desc
9	Kao	Kao	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 story	nmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 ordered	nsubj
11	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 degraded	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 degraded	nsubj
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 degraded	aux:pass
15	degraded	degrade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 ordered	ccomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 executed	cc
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 once	case
18	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	19 executed	obl
19	executed	execute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 degraded	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 heard	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 heard	cc
22	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	26 heard	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 heard	punct
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 heard	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 heard	nsubj
26	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 ordered	conj
27	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	26 heard	advmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 more	cc
29	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 more	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 valour	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 valour	det
32	valour	valour	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 more	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 wife	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 wife	det
35	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 valour	nmod
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 taken	nsubj
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 taken	aux
38	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 wife	acl:relcl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 said	punct
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 said	nsubj
41	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 ordered	conj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 take	punct
43	“	"	PUNCT	_	47 take	punct
44	If	if	SCONJ	_	47 take	mark
45	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 take	nsubj
46	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 take	aux
47	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 said	ccomp
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 city	det
49	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 take	obj
50	of	of	ADP	_	52 Chow	case
51	Yang	Yang	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 Chow	compound
52	Chow	chow	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 city	nmod
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 reward	punct
54	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 husband	nmod:poss
55	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 life	nmod:poss
56	’s	's	PART	_	55 husband	case
57	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 reward	nsubj
58	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	61 reward	aux
59	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	61 reward	cop
60	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 reward	nmod:poss
61	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 take	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	47 take	punct
63	”	"	PUNCT	_	47 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the Emperor	the story of Kao General		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus
2	order	past	Emperor			vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	degrade	infinitive · passive		Emperor		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
4	execute	participle				vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	hear	past	Emperor		late property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
6	take	past · perfect	Emperor	the wife not said here		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination
7	say speech: assert	past	Emperor			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	take a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	wife	the city of Yang Chow		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme
9	is a in a quote	shall	wife's husband's life	wife's reward	wife nmod:poss	tree rules

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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Tartar Joan of Arc, sentence 31

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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Tartar Joan of Arc, sentence 31