Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 44
To please them and for the sport of it, the Prince started out again.
Who acts: Prince, sport · What happens: please, start out, sport · To what, where: teachers
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, sport), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 please | mark |
| 2 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 started | advcl |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 please | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sport | cc |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 sport | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sport | det |
| 7 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 them | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sport | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 please | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Prince | det |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 started | nsubj |
| 13 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 started | compound:prt |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 started | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | please | to-infinitive | the Prince not said here | teachers = teacher | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | start out | past | the Prince | again | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | sport | sport | nom sport «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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