Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 21
Now, this Prince, Chin Pa, was noted for his strength.
What happens: note · To what, where: 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: 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 noted | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 Prince | det |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 noted | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Pa | punct |
| 6 | Chin | Chin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Pa | compound |
| 7 | Pa | Pa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Prince | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Prince | punct |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 noted | aux:pass |
| 10 | noted | note | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 strength | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 strength | nmod:poss |
| 13 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 noted | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 noted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | note | past · passive | this Prince and Chin Pa | now | for prince's strength | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
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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