Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Chinese Heroism, sentence 18
It was feared that they might rally for another attack and come with a stronger force.
Who acts: Boxers · What happens: fear, rally, come · To what, where: 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: who acts (Boxers), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 feared | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 feared | aux:pass |
| 3 | feared | fear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 rally | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 rally | nsubj |
| 6 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 rally | aux |
| 7 | rally | rally | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 feared | advcl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 attack | case |
| 9 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 attack | det |
| 10 | attack | attack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rally | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 come | cc |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 rally | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 force | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 force | det |
| 15 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 force | amod |
| 16 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 come | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 feared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | past · passive | place | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | rally | might | Boxers = boxer | for another attack | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | infinitive | Boxers = boxer not said here | with a stronger force | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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