Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Chinese Heroism, sentence 32
When they decided to stay outside they were as true martyrs as any who went to the block.
Who acts: fathers · What happens: decide, stay, be, go · To what, where: block
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), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 decided | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 decided | nsubj |
| 3 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 stay | mark |
| 5 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 decided | xcomp |
| 6 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 11 martyrs | case |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 martyrs | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 martyrs | cop |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 martyrs | case |
| 10 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 martyrs | amod |
| 11 | martyrs | martyr | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stay | obl |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 any | case |
| 13 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 martyrs | nmod |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 any | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 block | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 block | det |
| 18 | block | block | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past | fathers = father | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | stay not said to happen | to-infinitive | fathers = father not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | fathers = father | outside true martyrs; as any | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | past | the block | who nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to block=Initial_Location |
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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