Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Tartar Joan of Arc, sentence 32
She was given command of the army in place of Kao Chun Pao, who was allowed to accompany her as assistant.
Who acts: Kao Chun · What happens: give, allow, accompany, command · To what, where: wife, place, Kao Chun, army · 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 (Kao Chun), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 given | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 given | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 army | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 army | det |
| 7 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 command | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 place | case |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 given | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Chun | case |
| 11 | Kao | Kao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Chun | compound |
| 12 | Chun | Chun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 place | nmod |
| 13 | Pao | Pao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Chun | flat |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 allowed | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 allowed | aux:pass |
| 17 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 Chun | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 accompany | mark |
| 19 | accompany | accompany | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 allowed | xcomp |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 accompany | obj |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 assistant | case |
| 22 | assistant | assistant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 accompany | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | wife | place of Kao Chun | command of the army obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient command=Theme | |||
| 2 | allow | past · passive | Kao Chun | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | accompany not said to happen | to-infinitive | Kao Chun not said here | wife | as assistant | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 4 | command | the army | nom command «communication 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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