Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Chinese Heroism, sentence 19
We were given five minutes to get the women and children into the chapel.
What happens: give, get · To what, where: We, women, chapel
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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 given | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 minutes | nummod |
| 5 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 given | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 get | mark |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 given | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 women | det |
| 9 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 get | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 children | cc |
| 11 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 women | conj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 chapel | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 chapel | det |
| 14 | chapel | chapel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 get | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | We | minute | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | the women and children | the chapel | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus |
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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