Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Opening, sentence 25
In the British Legation she went to the hospital to nurse wounded soldiers when she needed herself to be carried there on a stretcher.
Who acts: sorrow · What happens: go, need, carry · To what, where: British Legation, sorrow, stretcher
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 (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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 Legation | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Legation | det |
| 3 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Legation | amod |
| 4 | Legation | legation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 hospital | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hospital | det |
| 9 | hospital | hospital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 soldiers | mark |
| 11 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 soldiers | compound |
| 12 | wounded | wounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 soldiers | amod |
| 13 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 went | advcl |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 needed | advmod |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 needed | nsubj |
| 16 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 17 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 needed | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 carried | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 carried | aux:pass |
| 20 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 needed | advcl |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 carried | advmod |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 stretcher | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 stretcher | det |
| 24 | stretcher | stretcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 carried | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | sorrow | the British Legation | to the hospital; nurse wounded soldiers advcl | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hospital=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | need | past | sorrow | sorrow | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot herself=Theme | ||||
| 3 | carry | to-infinitive · passive | sorrow not said here | a stretcher; there | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP» |
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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