Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Chinese Heroism, sentence 2
They will go down in history and make fascinating the story of the siege of Peking.
Who acts: foreigners · What happens: go down, make, fascinate · To what, where: story
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 (foreigners), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 go | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 history | case |
| 6 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 make | cc |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 go | conj |
| 9 | fascinating | fascinate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 make | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 story | det |
| 11 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fascinating | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 siege | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 siege | det |
| 14 | siege | siege | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 story | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Peking | case |
| 16 | Peking | Peking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 siege | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | future | foreigners = foreigner | in history; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in history=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | make | infinitive | foreigners = foreigner not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fascinate | gerund | foreigners = foreigner not said here | the story of the siege of Peking | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus story=Experiencer |
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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