Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Tartar Joan of Arc, sentence 8
The men and boys looked upon her as the French did upon Joan of Arc and gave her their fullest confidence and devotion.
Who acts: men, French · What happens: look, do, give, confide · To what, where: fullest confidence, Ting
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 (men, French), 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 men | det |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 boys | cc |
| 4 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 men | conj |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 looked | obl |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 did | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 French | det |
| 10 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 did | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looked | advcl |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 Joan | case |
| 13 | Joan | Joan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 did | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Arc | case |
| 15 | Arc | Arc | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Joan | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 gave | cc |
| 17 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looked | conj |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 gave | iobj |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 confidence | nmod:poss |
| 20 | fullest | full | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 confidence | amod |
| 21 | confidence | confidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gave | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 devotion | cc |
| 23 | devotion | devotion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 confidence | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the men and boys | upon Ting | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | past | the French | upon Joan of Arc | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | give | past | the men and boys not said here | men's fullest confidence and devotion | Ting | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient confidence=Theme | |||
| 4 | confide | men = man | nom confidence «cognition 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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