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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 22

It was said of him that, if he tried, he could breathe the roof off the house; also that he could lift himself up by the hair.

Who acts: prince · What happens: say, try, breathe, lift up · To what, where: strength, roof, prince · 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 (prince), 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

nsubjaux:passcaseoblobjpunctmarknsubjparataxispunctnsubjauxconjdetobjcasedetoblpunctadvmodmarknsubjauxconjobjcompound:prtcasedetoblpunctrootItPRONwasAUXsaidVERBofADPhimPRONthatPRON,PUNCTifSCONJhePRONtriedVERB,PUNCThePRONcouldAUXbreatheVERBtheDETroofNOUNoffADPtheDEThouseNOUN;PUNCTalsoADVthatSCONJhePRONcouldAUXliftVERBhimselfPRONupADPbyADPtheDEThairNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ItitPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 saidnsubj
2wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 saidaux:pass
3saidsayVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
4ofofADP_5 himcase
5himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 saidobl
6thatthatPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem3 saidobj
7,,PUNCT_10 triedpunct
8ififSCONJ_10 triedmark
9hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs10 triednsubj
10triedtryVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 saidparataxis
11,,PUNCT_14 breathepunct
12hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 breathensubj
13couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin14 breatheaux
14breathebreatheVERBVerbForm=Inf10 triedconj
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 roofdet
16roofroofNOUNNumber=Sing14 breatheobj
17offoffADP_19 housecase
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 housedet
19househouseNOUNNumber=Sing14 breatheobl
20;;PUNCT_25 liftpunct
21alsoalsoADV_25 liftadvmod
22thatthatSCONJ_25 liftmark
23hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 liftnsubj
24couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin25 liftaux
25liftliftVERBVerbForm=Inf3 saidconj
26himselfhimselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes25 liftobj
27upupADP_25 liftcompound:prt
28bybyADP_30 haircase
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 hairdet
30hairhairNOUNNumber=Sing25 liftobl
31..PUNCT_3 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertpast · passivestrengthof prince; that objvn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme that=Manner
2try a condition, not said to happenpastprincevn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3breathecouldprincethe roofoff the housevn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roof=Theme
4lift upcouldprinceprinceby the hairvn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme by hair=Destination

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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