Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Orient, sentence 2
Great was the sorrow in the home when the decision was made known.
Who acts: decision · What happens: be, make, know · To what, where: Great sorrow, home, decision
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Daughter of the Orient. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (decision), 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 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sorrow | amod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sorrow | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sorrow | det |
| 4 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 home | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 home | det |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sorrow | nmod |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 made | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 decision | det |
| 10 | decision | decision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 made | aux:pass |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sorrow | acl |
| 13 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 made | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sorrow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Great sorrow | the home | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | past · passive | the decision | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | know | participle | the decision not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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