Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 19
He then withdrew and hastened to the palace of Yen Sung, who seized the manuscript and read it eagerly, exclaiming, as he finished its perusal, “Thank the gods, we are saved!
Who acts: master, palace, manuscript · What happens: withdraw, hasten, seize, read, exclaim, finish · To what, where: palace, manuscript, perusal, gods, we · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Chinese Tea-house Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, palace, manuscript), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 withdrew | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 withdrew | advmod |
| 3 | withdrew | withdraw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 hastened | cc |
| 5 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 withdrew | conj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 palace | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 palace | det |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hastened | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Yen | case |
| 10 | Yen | Yen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 palace | nmod |
| 11 | Sung | Sung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Yen | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seized | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 seized | nsubj |
| 14 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 palace | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 manuscript | det |
| 16 | manuscript | manuscript | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seized | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 read | cc |
| 18 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 seized | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 read | obj |
| 20 | eagerly | eagerly | ADV | _ | 18 read | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 exclaiming | punct |
| 22 | exclaiming | exclaim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 read | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 finished | punct |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 finished | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 finished | nsubj |
| 26 | finished | finish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 exclaiming | conj |
| 27 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 perusal | nmod:poss |
| 28 | perusal | perusal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 finished | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Thank | punct |
| 30 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 Thank | punct |
| 31 | Thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 perusal | parataxis |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 gods | det |
| 33 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 Thank | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 saved | punct |
| 35 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 saved | nsubj |
| 36 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 saved | aux:pass |
| 37 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 withdrew | conj |
| 38 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 withdrew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | withdraw | past | master | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hasten | participle | master not said here | the palace of Yen | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to palace=Destination | ||||
| 3 | seize | past | the palace of Yen | the manuscript | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manuscript=Theme | ||||
| 4 | read | infinitive | the palace of Yen not said here | manuscript | eagerly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 5 | exclaim speech: express | gerund | the palace of Yen not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | finish | past | master | manuscript's perusal | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector perusal=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | thank speech: thank in a quote | present | the gods | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Theme | |||||
| 8 | save in a quote | present · passive | we | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 9 | peruse | manuscript | nom perusal «communication transitive»: poss=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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