Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Chinese Heroism, sentence 31

The fathers of these children were out protecting the courts, and the two brave women were ready to die rather than seek shelter when in so doing they might endanger and bring disaster upon others.

Who acts: fathers, women · What happens: protect, be, die, seek, do, endanger · To what, where: courts, shelter, disaster

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 (fathers, women), 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 fathers	det
2	fathers	father	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 ready	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 children	case
4	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 children	det
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fathers	nmod
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 ready	cop
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 were	compound:prt
8	protecting	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 were	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 courts	det
10	courts	court	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 protecting	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ready	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 ready	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 women	det
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 women	nummod
15	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 women	amod
16	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 ready	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 ready	cop
18	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
19	to	to	PART	_	20 die	mark
20	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 ready	xcomp
21	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	23 seek	cc
22	than	than	ADP	_	21 rather	fixed
23	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 die	conj
24	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 seek	obj
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 doing	advmod
26	in	in	SCONJ	_	28 doing	mark
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 doing	advmod
28	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 seek	parataxis
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 endanger	nsubj
30	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 endanger	aux
31	endanger	endanger	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 doing	ccomp
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 bring	cc
33	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 endanger	conj
34	disaster	disaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bring	obj
35	upon	upon	ADP	_	36 others	case
36	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 bring	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 ready	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	protect	gerund	the fathers of this children not said here	the courts		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=Beneficiary
2	is	past	the fathers of this children		the two brave women nsubj; ready property	tree rules
3	die	to-infinitive	the fathers of this children not said here			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	seek	infinitive	the fathers of this children not said here	shelter		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shelter=Theme
5	do	gerund				tree rules
6	endanger	might	women = woman			tree rules
7	bring	infinitive	women = woman not said here	disaster	upon others	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent disaster=Theme

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 31

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Chinese Heroism, sentence 31