Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 77
In some way that company must be disbanded or Han Hsin never would win the final victory.
What happens: disband, not win · To what, where: Han, way, final victory
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 disbanded | obl |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 company | det |
| 5 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 way | nmod |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 disbanded | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 disbanded | aux:pass |
| 8 | disbanded | disband | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 Han | cc |
| 10 | Han | Han | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 disbanded | obl |
| 11 | Hsin | Hsin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Han | flat |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 win | advmod |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 win | aux |
| 14 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 disbanded | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 victory | det |
| 16 | final | final | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 victory | amod |
| 17 | victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 win | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 disbanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disband | must · passive | Han | some way that company | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V» | ||||
| 2 | not win | would | the final victory | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent victory=Eventuality |
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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