Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Chinese Heroism, sentence 21
After we were all in we asked the soldiers on guard to let us go once more through the house set aside for the Chinese.
Who acts: we, us · What happens: be, let, go, set · To what, where: us, house · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (we, us), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 7 asked | mark |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 asked | cop |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 asked | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 7 asked | mark |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 asked | nsubj |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 soldiers | det |
| 9 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 asked | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 guard | case |
| 11 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 soldiers | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 let | mark |
| 13 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 asked | ccomp |
| 14 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 let | obj |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 let | xcomp |
| 16 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 17 more | advmod |
| 17 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 go | advmod |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 house | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 house | det |
| 20 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 go | obl |
| 21 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 house | acl |
| 22 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 21 set | advmod |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 Chinese | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Chinese | det |
| 25 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 set | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be speech: ask | past | we | the soldiers obj; all, ask property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | let not said to happen | to-infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | us not said here | the house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | set | participle | the house not said here | for the Chinese; aside property | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for chinese=Beneficiary |
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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