Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Tartar Joan of Arc, sentence 36
On his arrival the papers granting pardon to her husband were sent to Chin Ting, and she was made Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial forces.
Who acts: papers, Commander Chief, Governor · What happens: grant, send, chin, make, arrive · To what, where: pardon, husband, papers, arrival, Ting, stronghold
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 (papers, Commander Chief, Governor), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 arrival | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 arrival | nmod:poss |
| 3 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sent | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 papers | det |
| 5 | papers | paper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | granting | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 papers | acl |
| 7 | pardon | pardon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 granting | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 husband | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 husband | nmod:poss |
| 10 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 granting | obl |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sent | aux:pass |
| 12 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Chin | case |
| 14 | Chin | chin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 sent | xcomp |
| 15 | Ting | ting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Chin | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 made | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 made | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 made | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 made | aux:pass |
| 20 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 sent | advcl |
| 21 | Commander | Commander | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Chief | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 Chief | punct |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 Chief | case |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 in | punct |
| 25 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 made | obl:agent |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 forces | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 forces | det |
| 28 | Imperial | imperial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 forces | amod |
| 29 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 Chief | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grant | gerund | the papers not said here | pardon | stronghold's husband | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent pardon=Theme to husband=Goal | |||
| 2 | send | past · passive | the papers | Governor's arrival | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | chin | infinitive | the papers not said here | Ting | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make | past · passive | Commander Chief of the Imperial forces | stronghold | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product | ||||
| 5 | arrive | Governor | nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=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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