Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 28
Shortly after came the triennial examinations for the advanced degrees.
What happens: come · To what, where: triennial examinations
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: 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 | Shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 3 came | mark |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 examinations | det |
| 5 | triennial | triennial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 examinations | amod |
| 6 | examinations | examination | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 came | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 degrees | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 degrees | det |
| 9 | advanced | advanced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 degrees | amod |
| 10 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 came | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the triennial examinations | for the advanced degrees; shortly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location examination=Theme |
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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