Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Opening, sentence 24
The first massacres in the country brought refugees to Peking, to whom she ministered day and night.
Who acts: first massacres, sorrow · What happens: bring, minister · To what, where: refugees, Peking
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 (first massacres, sorrow), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 massacres | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 massacres | amod |
| 3 | massacres | massacre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 brought | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 country | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 country | det |
| 6 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 massacres | nmod |
| 7 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | refugees | refugee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 brought | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Peking | case |
| 10 | Peking | Peking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 brought | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 whom | punct |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 whom | case |
| 13 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 brought | parataxis |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 ministered | nsubj |
| 15 | ministered | minister | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 whom | acl:relcl |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ministered | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 night | cc |
| 18 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 day | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | the first massacres in the country | refugees | Peking | whom parataxis | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent refugee=Theme to peking=Destination | ||
| 2 | minister | past | sorrow | day | 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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