Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 54
They believed that he was to lead them to victory and save their country.
Who acts: pictures, Han · What happens: believe, be, save · To what, where: country · 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 (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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 believed | nsubj |
| 2 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 lead | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 lead | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lead | cop |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 lead | mark |
| 7 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 believed | ccomp |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 lead | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 victory | case |
| 10 | victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lead | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 save | cc |
| 12 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 lead | conj |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 country | nmod:poss |
| 14 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 save | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 believed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | past | pictures = picture | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Han | to victory; pictures = picture obj; lead property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | save | infinitive | Han not said here | pictures's country | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=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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