Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 80
He then produced a large kite, the first ever made, and disclosed his plan.
Who acts: Chang · What happens: produce, make, disclose, plan · To what, where: large kite, plan
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 (Chang), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 produced | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 produced | advmod |
| 3 | produced | produce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 kite | det |
| 5 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 kite | amod |
| 6 | kite | kite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 produced | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 first | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 first | det |
| 9 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 kite | amod |
| 10 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 made | advmod |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 first | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 disclosed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 disclosed | cc |
| 14 | disclosed | disclose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 produced | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 plan | nmod:poss |
| 16 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 disclosed | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 produced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | produce | past | Chang | a large kite | then | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kite=Result | |||
| 2 | make | participle | Chang not said here | ever | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | disclose | past | Chang not said here | Chang's plan | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot plan=Topic | ||||
| 4 | plan | Chang | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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