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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Jade Treasure, sentence 8

Day after day he came until the officer in charge mentioned the matter to the Emperor, who said that the next time he was to be brought before him.

Who acts: Day, officer, Emperor · What happens: come, mention, say, bring · To what, where: matter, Emperor, workman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, The Jade Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Day, officer, Emperor), 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

nsubjcasenmodnsubjmarkdetnsubjcasenmodadvcldetobjcasedetoblpunctnsubjadvcl:relclmarkdetamodobl:unmarkednsubjaux:passmarkaux:passccompcaseoblpunctrootDayPROPNafterADPdayNOUNhePRONcameVERBuntilSCONJtheDETofficerNOUNinADPchargeNOUNmentionedVERBtheDETmatterNOUNtoADPtheDETEmperorPROPN,PUNCTwhoPRONsaidVERBthatSCONJtheDETnextADJtimeNOUNhePRONwasAUXtoPARTbeAUXbroughtVERBbeforeADPhimPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1DayDayPROPNNumber=Sing5 camensubj
2afterafterADP_3 daycase
3daydayNOUNNumber=Sing1 Daynmod
4hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs5 camensubj
5camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6untiluntilSCONJ_11 mentionedmark
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 officerdet
8officerofficerNOUNNumber=Sing11 mentionednsubj
9ininADP_10 chargecase
10chargechargeNOUNNumber=Sing8 officernmod
11mentionedmentionVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 cameadvcl
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 matterdet
13mattermatterNOUNNumber=Sing11 mentionedobj
14totoADP_16 Emperorcase
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 Emperordet
16EmperorEmperorPROPNNumber=Sing11 mentionedobl
17,,PUNCT_19 saidpunct
18whowhoPRONPronType=Rel19 saidnsubj
19saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin16 Emperoradvcl:relcl
20thatthatSCONJ_28 broughtmark
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 timedet
22nextnextADJDegree=Pos23 timeamod
23timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing28 broughtobl:unmarked
24hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 broughtnsubj
25wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 broughtaux:pass
26totoPART_28 broughtmark
27bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf28 broughtaux:pass
28broughtbringVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass19 saidccomp
29beforebeforeADP_30 himcase
30himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 broughtobl
31..PUNCT_5 camepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1comepastDay after dayworkman nsubjvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2mention speech: otherpastthe officer in chargethe matterthe Emperorvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent matter=Topic to emperor=Recipient
3say speech: assertpastthe Emperorvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4bringpast · passiveworkmanbefore Emperor; timevn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before he=Destination

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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