Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Chinese Heroism, sentence 12
Captain Hall had asked some of the foreign ladies to have charge of getting the Chinese women and children into the chapel when the order was given.
Who acts: Captain, some, charge · What happens: ask, have, get, give · To what, where: some, charge, Chinese women, chapel, order
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 (Captain, some, charge), 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 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | Hall | Hall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Captain | flat |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 asked | aux |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 asked | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 ladies | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ladies | det |
| 8 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ladies | amod |
| 9 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 some | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 have | mark |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 asked | xcomp |
| 12 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obj |
| 13 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 14 getting | mark |
| 14 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 charge | acl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 women | det |
| 16 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 women | amod |
| 17 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 getting | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 children | cc |
| 19 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 women | conj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 chapel | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 chapel | det |
| 22 | chapel | chapel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 getting | obl |
| 23 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 27 given | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 order | det |
| 25 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 given | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 given | aux:pass |
| 27 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 getting | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past · perfect | Captain | some of the foreign ladies | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent some=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have not said to happen | to-infinitive | some of the foreign ladies not said here | charge | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Patient | ||||
| 3 | get | gerund | charge not said here | the Chinese women and children | the chapel | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | give | past · passive | the order | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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