Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 34
Han Hsin could not even for half an hour hold up the great iron spear, and he was driven with laughter and derision from the court.
Who acts: Han · What happens: hold up, drive · To what, where: great iron spear, Han, court
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), 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 | Han | Han | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 hold | nsubj |
| 2 | Hsin | Hsin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Han | flat |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 hold | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 hour | advmod |
| 5 | even | even | ADV | _ | 9 hour | advmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 hour | case |
| 7 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 9 hour | det:predet |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hour | det |
| 9 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hold | nsubj |
| 10 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 hold | compound:prt |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 spear | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 spear | amod |
| 14 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spear | compound |
| 15 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hold | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 driven | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 driven | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 driven | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 driven | aux:pass |
| 20 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 hold | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 laughter | case |
| 22 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 driven | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 derision | cc |
| 24 | derision | derision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 laughter | conj |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 court | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 court | det |
| 27 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 driven | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 hold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold up | could | Han | the great iron spear | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot spear=Theme | ||||
| 2 | drive | past · passive | Han | the court | with laughter and derision | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme from court=Trajectory |
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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