Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Chinese Heroism, sentence 3

The world will never tire of reading of the charges made to capture cannon that were sending their shells into the British Legation, and of the bravery of the Japanese who held the Prince’s palace through fire, shot, and shell: Only twenty-five in number when they entered the city, by August 14th only three had not been killed or wounded.

Who acts: world, charges, cannon, bravery, foreigners · What happens: not tire, make, capture, send, hold, enter · To what, where: shell, charges, cannon, shells, British Legation, palace

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 (world, charges, cannon, bravery), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 world	det
2	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tire	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tire	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 tire	advmod
5	tire	tire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 reading	case
7	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tire	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 charges	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 charges	det
10	charges	charge	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 reading	nmod
11	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 charges	acl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 capture	mark
13	capture	capture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 made	xcomp
14	cannon	cannon	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 capture	obj
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 sending	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sending	aux
17	sending	send	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 cannon	acl:relcl
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 shells	nmod:poss
19	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 sending	obj
20	into	into	ADP	_	23 Legation	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Legation	det
22	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Legation	amod
23	Legation	Legation	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 sending	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 bravery	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 bravery	cc
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 bravery	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 bravery	det
28	bravery	bravery	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tire	parataxis
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 Japanese	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Japanese	det
31	Japanese	Japanese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 bravery	nmod
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 held	nsubj
33	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 bravery	acl:relcl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Prince	det
35	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 palace	nmod:poss
36	’s	's	PART	_	35 Prince	case
37	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 held	obj
38	through	through	ADP	_	39 fire	case
39	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 held	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 shot	punct
41	shot	shot	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 fire	conj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 shell	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 shell	cc
44	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tire	obl
45	:	:	PUNCT	_	49 five	punct
46	Only	only	ADV	_	49 five	advmod
47	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	49 five	compound
48	-	-	PUNCT	_	47 twenty	punct
49	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 tire	parataxis
50	in	in	ADP	_	51 number	case
51	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 five	nmod
52	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	54 entered	advmod
53	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 entered	nsubj
54	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 five	advcl
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 city	det
56	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 entered	obj
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 14th	punct
58	by	by	ADP	_	60 14th	case
59	August	August	PROPN	Number=Sing	60 14th	compound
60	14th	14th	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 entered	obl
61	only	only	ADV	_	62 three	advmod
62	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	66 killed	nsubj:pass
63	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	66 killed	aux
64	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	66 killed	advmod
65	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	66 killed	aux:pass
66	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	54 entered	parataxis
67	or	or	CCONJ	_	68 wounded	cc
68	wounded	wound	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	66 killed	conj
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tire	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not tire	future	the world	shell		of reading of the charges; the bravery of the Japanese parataxis; twenty five in number parataxis	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	make	participle		the charges not said here			tree rules
3	capture	to-infinitive	the charges not said here	cannon			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cannon=Theme
4	send	past · progressive	cannon	foreigners's shells	the British Legation		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Theme
5	hold	past	the bravery of the Japanese	the Prince's palace	fire and shot		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent palace=Theme through fire=Location
6	enter	past	foreigners = foreigner	the city		by August 14th	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme city=Destination
7	not kill	past · perfect · passive		three			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
8	wound	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
9	read			the charges			nom reading «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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 3

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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Chinese Heroism, sentence 3