Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 99
And then and there, almost in sight of his enemy, the man he had regarded with contempt, he killed himself.
Who acts: man · What happens: regard, kill, sight · To what, where: man, enemy
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 (man), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 there | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 there | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 there | cc |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sight | punct |
| 6 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 8 sight | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 sight | case |
| 8 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 there | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 enemy | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 11 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sight | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 regarded | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 regarded | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 regarded | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 regarded | aux |
| 17 | regarded | regard | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 there | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 contempt | case |
| 19 | contempt | contempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 regarded | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 killed | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 killed | nsubj |
| 22 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 regarded | conj |
| 23 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 killed | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | regard | past · perfect · passive | the man | with contempt | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | kill | past | man | man | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sight | Chin's enemy | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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