Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 50
At that time this Prince was at war with Chin Pa and was very hard pressed by the latter, and anxious to surround himself with wise men.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: be, press, surround · To what, where: war, prince
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), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 Prince | det |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 war | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 war | cop |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 war | case |
| 8 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 time | nmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 Pa | case |
| 10 | Chin | Chin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Pa | compound |
| 11 | Pa | Pa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 war | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 pressed | cc |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 pressed | aux:pass |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 hard | advmod |
| 15 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 pressed | advmod |
| 16 | pressed | press | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 Pa | conj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 latter | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 latter | det |
| 19 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 pressed | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 anxious | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 anxious | cc |
| 22 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 war | parataxis |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 surround | mark |
| 24 | surround | surround | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 anxious | xcomp |
| 25 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 surround | obj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 men | case |
| 27 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 men | amod |
| 28 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 surround | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 war | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this Prince | war | with Chin Pa | tree rules | |||
| 2 | press | past · passive | this Prince not said here | by the latter; hard property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP» | ||||
| 3 | surround | to-infinitive | this Prince not said here | prince | with wise men | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Destination with man=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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