Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 71
This place was not guarded, as it was supposed to be impossible of ascent.
What happens: not guard, suppose, be · To what, where: place
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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 place | det |
| 2 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 guarded | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 guarded | aux:pass |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 guarded | advmod |
| 5 | guarded | guard | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 supposed | punct |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 supposed | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 supposed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 supposed | aux:pass |
| 10 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 guarded | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 impossible | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 impossible | cop |
| 13 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 supposed | xcomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 ascent | case |
| 15 | ascent | ascent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 impossible | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 guarded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not guard | past · passive | this place | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | |||||
| 2 | suppose | past · passive | place | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | of ascent; impossible 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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