Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Opening, sentence 27

The year that followed was a drawn-out agony, as she heard the stories of martyrdoms, listened with tense sympathy to the tales of returned refugees, gathered orphans and widows into schools, and with a faith that never faltered planned to build up the waste places.

Who acts: year, sorrow, returned refugees · What happens: follow, draw, be, hear, listen, return · To what, where: drawn out agony, stories, orphans, faith, waste places · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (year, sorrow, returned refugees), 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	2 year	det
2	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 agony	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 followed	nsubj
4	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 year	acl:relcl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 agony	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 agony	det
7	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 agony	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 drawn	punct
9	out	out	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 agony	compound
10	agony	agony	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 heard	punct
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 heard	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 heard	nsubj
14	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 agony	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 stories	det
16	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 heard	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 martyrdoms	case
18	martyrdoms	martyrdom	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 stories	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 listened	punct
20	listened	listen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 stories	acl
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 sympathy	case
22	tense	tense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 sympathy	amod
23	sympathy	sympathy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 listened	obl
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 tales	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 tales	det
26	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 sympathy	nmod
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 refugees	case
28	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 refugees	amod
29	refugees	refugee	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 tales	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 gathered	punct
31	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 heard	conj
32	orphans	orphan	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 gathered	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 widows	cc
34	widows	widow	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 orphans	conj
35	into	into	ADP	_	36 schools	case
36	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 gathered	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 faith	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 faith	cc
39	with	with	ADP	_	41 faith	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 faith	det
41	faith	faith	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 heard	conj
42	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 faltered	obj
43	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	44 faltered	advmod
44	faltered	falter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 faith	acl:relcl
45	planned	plan	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 faltered	xcomp
46	to	to	PART	_	47 build	mark
47	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 planned	xcomp
48	up	up	ADP	_	47 build	compound:prt
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 places	det
50	waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 places	compound
51	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 build	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 agony	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	past	the year			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	draw	participle				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	the year	a drawn out agony		tree rules
4	hear	past	sorrow	the stories of martyrdoms	a faith conj	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus
5	listen	participle		the stories of martyrdoms not said here	with tense sympathy to the tales of returned refugees	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
6	return	participle				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	gather	past	sorrow not said here	orphans and widows	into schools	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent orphan=Patient into school=Co-Patient
8	not falter	past		a faith		tree rules
9	plan	participle				vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
10	build up not said to happen	to-infinitive		the waste places		vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer place=Patient
11	tell		returned refugees			nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Opening, sentence 27

The tree

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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Opening, sentence 27