Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 5
To the Chinese but little stage setting is necessary for their national heroes.
What happens: be
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: 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 | ADP | _ | 7 setting | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 setting | det |
| 3 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 setting | amod |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 little | cc |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Chinese | conj |
| 6 | stage | stage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 setting | compound |
| 7 | setting | setting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 necessary | obl |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 necessary | cop |
| 9 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 heroes | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 heroes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 heroes | amod |
| 13 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 necessary | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 necessary | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | to the Chinese stage setting; for heroes's national heroes; necessary property | tree rules |
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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