Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Jade Treasure, sentence 9
Coming again some days later he was taken to the audience-room.
What happens: come, take · To what, where: workman, audience room
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: 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 | Coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 taken | csubj:pass |
| 2 | again | again | ADV | _ | 1 Coming | advmod |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 days | det |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 later | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 1 Coming | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 taken | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 taken | aux:pass |
| 8 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 room | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 room | det |
| 11 | audience | audience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 room | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 audience | punct |
| 13 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 taken | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | gerund | again | late property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past · passive | workman | the audience room | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to room=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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