Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Chinese Heroism, sentence 1
During the days between June 8th and August 14th, 1900 A.D., many brave deeds were seen and applauded by the foreigners shut within the walls of Peking.
Who acts: foreigners · What happens: see, applaud, shut · To what, where: many brave deeds
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Chinese Heroism. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foreigners), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 days | det |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 seen | obl |
| 4 | between | between | ADP | _ | 6 8th | case |
| 5 | June | June | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 8th | compound |
| 6 | 8th | 8th | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 3 days | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 14th | cc |
| 8 | August | August | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 14th | compound |
| 9 | 14th | 14th | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 8th | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 1900 | punct |
| 11 | 1900 | 1900 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 14th | appos |
| 12 | A.D | A.D | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 1900 | nmod:unmarked |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 days | punct |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 days | punct |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 deeds | amod |
| 16 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 deeds | amod |
| 17 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 seen | aux:pass |
| 19 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 applauded | cc |
| 21 | applauded | applaud | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 seen | conj |
| 22 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 25 shut | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 foreigners | det |
| 24 | foreigners | foreigner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 shut | nsubj |
| 25 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 applauded | ccomp |
| 26 | within | within | ADP | _ | 28 walls | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 walls | det |
| 28 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 shut | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Peking | case |
| 30 | Peking | Peking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 walls | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · passive | many brave deeds | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | applaud | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | shut | present | the foreigners | within the walls of Peking | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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