Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 35
When the teachers remonstrated with the Prince he said, “I want no such weakling in my kingdom.”
Who acts: teachers, prince · What happens: remonstrate, say, want · To what, where: such weakling, 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 (teachers, 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 remonstrated | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 teachers | det |
| 3 | teachers | teacher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 remonstrated | nsubj |
| 4 | remonstrated | remonstrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 Prince | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Prince | det |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 remonstrated | obl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 want | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 want | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 want | nsubj |
| 13 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 weakling | det |
| 15 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 weakling | amod |
| 16 | weakling | weakling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 want | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 kingdom | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 19 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 want | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remonstrate | participle | the teachers | with the Prince | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with prince=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | want in a quote | present | prince | no such weakling | my kingdom | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot weakling=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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