Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Chinese Heroism, sentence 11
The chapel there had been barricaded and was to be the place of retreat in case of an attack from Boxers.
What happens: barricade, be · To what, where: chapel, place
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: 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 chapel | det |
| 2 | chapel | chapel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 barricaded | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 chapel | advmod |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 barricaded | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 barricaded | aux:pass |
| 6 | barricaded | barricade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 place | cc |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 place | cop |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 place | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 place | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 place | det |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 barricaded | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 retreat | case |
| 14 | retreat | retreat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 place | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 case | case |
| 16 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 retreat | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 attack | case |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 attack | det |
| 19 | attack | attack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 case | nmod |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 Boxers | case |
| 21 | Boxers | boxer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 attack | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 barricaded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | barricade | past · perfect · passive | the chapel | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | the place | of retreat in case of a attack from Boxers | tree rules |
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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