Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Tartar Joan of Arc, sentence 38
A picture showing her attack on the gates of Yang Chow is a great favourite with the Chinese, and always on sale at the New Year when Chinese homes are freshly decorated.
Who acts: picture, stronghold · What happens: show, be, decorate, attack · To what, where: attack, gates, great favourite, Chinese homes
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 (picture, stronghold), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 picture | det |
| 2 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 favourite | nsubj |
| 3 | showing | show | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 picture | acl |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 attack | nmod:poss |
| 5 | attack | attack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 showing | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 gates | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gates | det |
| 8 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 showing | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Chow | case |
| 10 | Yang | Yang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Chow | compound |
| 11 | Chow | chow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gates | nmod |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 favourite | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 favourite | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 favourite | amod |
| 15 | favourite | favourite | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 Chinese | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Chinese | det |
| 18 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 favourite | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sale | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 sale | cc |
| 21 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 23 sale | advmod |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 sale | case |
| 23 | sale | sale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 favourite | conj |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 Year | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Year | det |
| 26 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Year | compound |
| 27 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 sale | nmod |
| 28 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 33 decorated | advmod |
| 29 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 homes | amod |
| 30 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 decorated | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 decorated | aux:pass |
| 32 | freshly | freshly | ADV | _ | 33 decorated | advmod |
| 33 | decorated | decorate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 sale | advcl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 favourite | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | gerund | a picture not said here | stronghold's attack | the gates of Yang Chow | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent attack=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is a | present | a picture | a great favourite and sale at the New Year | with the Chinese; sale at the New Year conj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | decorate | present · passive | Chinese homes | freshly property | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 4 | attack | stronghold | nom attack «act transitive»: 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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