Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Chinese Heroism, sentence 24

At last we reached one of the schoolrooms, and there in the dark, crouched among the seats, were two women and four little children.

Who acts: last · What happens: reach, crouch, be · To what, where: one, dark, seats, two women

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 (last), 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	SCONJ	_	4 reached	mark
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reached	nsubj
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 reached	nsubj
4	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 women	advcl
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 reached	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 schoolrooms	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 schoolrooms	det
8	schoolrooms	schoolroom	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 one	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dark	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 dark	cc
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 dark	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 dark	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dark	det
14	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reached	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 crouched	punct
16	crouched	crouch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 dark	acl
17	among	among	ADP	_	19 seats	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 seats	det
19	seats	seat	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 crouched	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 reached	punct
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 women	cop
22	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 women	nummod
23	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 children	cc
25	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 children	nummod
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 children	amod
27	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 women	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 women	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	last	one of the schoolrooms	the dark	we nsubj	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent one=Theme
2	crouch	participle		the dark not said here	the seats		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among seat=Location
3	is a	past		two women and four little children		four little children conj	tree rules

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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Chinese Heroism, sentence 24

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Chinese Heroism, sentence 24