Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 100
Thus ended a strife of nearly twenty years between two kingdoms, and Han Hsin came to be the Prince of his kingdom.
Who acts: Han Hsin · What happens: end, come, be · To what, where: strife, Prince
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Chinese Hero. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Han Hsin), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 2 ended | advmod |
| 2 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 strife | det |
| 4 | strife | strife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ended | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 years | case |
| 6 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 7 twenty | advmod |
| 7 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 years | nummod |
| 8 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 strife | nmod |
| 9 | between | between | ADP | _ | 11 kingdoms | case |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 kingdoms | nummod |
| 11 | kingdoms | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 years | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 came | cc |
| 14 | Han | Han | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Hsin | compound |
| 15 | Hsin | Hsin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 came | nsubj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ended | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 Prince | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 Prince | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Prince | det |
| 20 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 came | parataxis |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 kingdom | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 23 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Prince | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | past | a strife of twenty years between two kingdoms | thus property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality strife=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Han Hsin | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | the Prince | of Hsin's kingdom | 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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