Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Orient, sentence 34
A country with such an one is blest like the possessor of a precious jewel.
Who acts: country · What happens: be
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 (country), 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 country | det |
| 2 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 blest | nsubj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 one | case |
| 4 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 one | det:predet |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 one | det |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 country | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 blest | cop |
| 8 | blest | blest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 possessor | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 possessor | det |
| 11 | possessor | possessor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 blest | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 jewel | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 jewel | det |
| 14 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 jewel | amod |
| 15 | jewel | jewel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 possessor | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 blest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a country with such one | like the possessor of a precious jewel; blest property | tree rules |
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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