Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 53
Old pictures show Han Hsin seated on a throne and worshipped by the military men and soldiers under him.
Who acts: Old pictures, Han · What happens: show, seat, worshipp · To what, where: throne · 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 (Old pictures, 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 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 pictures | amod |
| 2 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 show | nsubj |
| 3 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Han | Han | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 seated | nsubj |
| 5 | Hsin | Hsin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Han | flat |
| 6 | seated | seat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 show | ccomp |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 throne | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 throne | det |
| 9 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seated | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 worshipped | cc |
| 11 | worshipped | worshipp | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 seated | conj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 men | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 men | det |
| 14 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 men | amod |
| 15 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 worshipped | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 soldiers | cc |
| 17 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 men | conj |
| 18 | under | under | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 soldiers | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | Old pictures | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | seat | past | Han | a throne | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location | ||||
| 3 | worshipp | participle | Han not said here | by the military men and soldiers under man | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/9/53/