Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Tartar Joan of Arc, sentence 35
The Governor was taken prisoner and sent as voucher for the completeness of her conquest to the Emperor.
What happens: take, send · To what, where: Governor
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Governor | det |
| 2 | Governor | Governor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | aux:pass |
| 4 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taken | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sent | cc |
| 7 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 taken | conj |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 voucher | case |
| 9 | voucher | voucher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | obl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 completeness | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 completeness | det |
| 12 | completeness | completeness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 conquest | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 conquest | nmod:poss |
| 15 | conquest | conquest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 completeness | nmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Emperor | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Emperor | det |
| 18 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 conquest | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · passive | the Governor | prisoner xcomp | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 2 | send | participle | as voucher; for the completeness of stronghold's conquest to the Emperor | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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