Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Chinese Heroism, sentence 23
At first they said no, but finally gave us five minutes, and we fairly flew from court to court and room to room.
Who acts: missionaries, we · What happens: say, give, fly · To what, where: us, court · 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 (missionaries, we), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 first | case |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 said | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 said | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gave | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 gave | cc |
| 8 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 9 gave | advmod |
| 9 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 gave | iobj |
| 11 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 minutes | nummod |
| 12 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 gave | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 flew | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 flew | cc |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 flew | nsubj |
| 16 | fairly | fairly | ADV | _ | 17 flew | advmod |
| 17 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 court | case |
| 19 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 flew | obl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 court | case |
| 21 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 flew | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 room | cc |
| 23 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 court | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 room | mark |
| 25 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 room | acl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | missionaries = missionary | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=Topic | |||||
| 2 | give | past | missionaries = missionary not said here | us | minute | finally property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | ||
| 3 | fly | past | we | court | to court and room room; fairly property | vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent from court=Initial_Location to court=Destination |
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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