Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 17
Many such stories, and more wonderful ones, were told of him, and his fame spread all over the kingdom.
Who acts: fame · What happens: tell, spread · To what, where: Many such stories, kingdom · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (fame), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stories | amod |
| 2 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stories | amod |
| 3 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 told | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ones | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 ones | cc |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 wonderful | advmod |
| 7 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ones | amod |
| 8 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stories | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 stories | punct |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 told | aux:pass |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 told | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 spread | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 spread | cc |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 fame | nmod:poss |
| 17 | fame | fame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spread | nsubj |
| 18 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 told | conj |
| 19 | all | all | ADV | _ | 22 kingdom | advmod |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 kingdom | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 kingdom | det |
| 22 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spread | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | Many such stories and wonderful ones | of Han | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | spread | past | Han's fame | the kingdom | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location kingdom=Theme |
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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