Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 31

The teachers urged the Prince to give the young man a trial and at last he said, “Here is my spear—let him hold it up straight for half a day.

Who acts: teachers, man · What happens: urge, give, say, be, let, hold up · To what, where: Prince, trial, young man, last, man · 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 (teachers, man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 teachers	det
2	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 urged	nsubj
3	urged	urge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Prince	det
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 urged	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 give	mark
7	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 urged	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	iobj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 trial	det
12	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 last	case
15	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 urged	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Here	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 Here	punct
20	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 said	ccomp
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 Here	cop
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 spear	nmod:poss
23	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	ccomp
24	—	-	PUNCT	_	25 let	punct
25	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 let	obj
27	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 let	xcomp
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 hold	obj
29	up	up	ADP	_	27 hold	compound:prt
30	straight	straight	ADV	_	34 day	advmod
31	for	for	ADP	_	34 day	case
32	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	34 day	det:predet
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 day	det
34	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hold	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 urged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	urge	past	the teachers	the Prince					vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient clause=Topic
2	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	the teachers not said here	a trial	the young man				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent man=Recipient trial=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	man			last		my spear ccomp	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is in a quote	present						here property	tree rules
5	let in a quote	infinitive		man					tree rules
6	hold up in a quote	infinitive	man not said here	trial			day		vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 31

The tree

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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 31