Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Opening, sentence 11

It was in the autumn of 1890 that I sat one evening looking into the face of a young woman who was passing through Tung-chow on her way to her new field of work in Peking.

Who acts: FOREWORD, autumn, young woman · What happens: be, sit, look, pass · To what, where: Tung chow

This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (FOREWORD, autumn, young woman), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 autumn	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 autumn	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 autumn	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 autumn	det
5	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 1890	case
7	1890	1890	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 autumn	nmod
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 sat	nsubj
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 sat	nsubj
10	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 autumn	acl:relcl
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 evening	nummod
12	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	obl:unmarked
13	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 sat	advcl
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 face	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 face	det
16	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 looking	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 woman	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 woman	det
19	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 woman	amod
20	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 face	nmod
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 passing	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 passing	aux
23	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 woman	acl:relcl
24	through	through	ADP	_	27 chow	case
25	Tung	Tung	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 chow	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 Tung	punct
27	chow	chow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 passing	obl
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 way	case
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 way	nmod:poss
30	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 passing	obl
31	to	to	ADP	_	34 field	case
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 field	nmod:poss
33	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 field	amod
34	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 way	nmod
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 work	case
36	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 field	nmod
37	in	in	ADP	_	38 Peking	case
38	Peking	Peking	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 work	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 autumn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	FOREWORD			in the autumn; of 1890	tree rules
2	sit	past	the autumn		evening	I nsubj	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	look	gerund	the autumn not said here			into the face of a young woman	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into face=Theme
4	pass	past · progressive	a young woman	Tung chow		on woman's way to woman's new field of work in Peking	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through chow=Location

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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Opening, sentence 11

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Opening, sentence 11