Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 94

The bench carried him to a mountain far from all with which he was familiar, and there came to rest.

Who acts: bench, teacher · What happens: carry, be, come, rest · To what, where: teacher

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 (bench, teacher), 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 bench	det
2	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carried	nsubj
3	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 carried	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 mountain	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 mountain	det
7	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carried	obl
8	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 all	advmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 carried	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 which	case
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 familiar	obl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 familiar	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 familiar	cop
15	familiar	familiar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 all	amod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 came	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 came	cc
18	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 came	expl
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 carried	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 rest	mark
21	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 came	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	carry	past	the bench	teacher		to a mountain	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme he=Beneficiary all=Value
2	is	past	teacher			which obl; familiar property	tree rules
3	come	past	the bench not said here		there		tree rules
4	rest	to-infinitive	the bench not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 94

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 94