Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Chinese Heroism, sentence 16

June 13th, about half-past six, we were startled by the news that the front chapel was in flames; a moment or two after came the word for all women to get to the chapel.

Who acts: news, front chapel · What happens: startle, be, come, get · To what, where: we, flames, word, past six

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 (news, front chapel), 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	June	June	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 13th	compound
2	13th	13th	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 six	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 six	punct
4	about	about	ADV	_	8 six	advmod
5	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	7 past	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 half	punct
7	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 six	amod
8	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 startled	punct
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 startled	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 startled	aux:pass
12	startled	startle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 six	conj
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 news	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 news	det
15	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 startled	obl
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 flames	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 chapel	det
18	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 chapel	amod
19	chapel	chapel	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 flames	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 flames	cop
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 flames	case
22	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 news	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 moment	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 moment	det
25	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 startled	obl
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 two	cc
27	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 moment	conj
28	after	after	SCONJ	_	29 came	mark
29	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 startled	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 word	det
31	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 came	obj
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 women	case
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 women	det
34	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 word	nmod
35	to	to	PART	_	36 get	mark
36	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 came	advcl
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 chapel	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 chapel	det
39	chapel	chapel	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 get	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 six	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	startle	past · passive	the news	we		moment		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
2	is	past	the front chapel		flames			tree rules
3	come	past	the news not said here	the word			for all women	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location word=Theme
4	get	to-infinitive	the news not said here				to the chapel result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to chapel=Result

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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Chinese Heroism, sentence 16

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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Chinese Heroism, sentence 16