Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Chinese Heroism, sentence 9

Those who have read the events of the past summer carefully will remember that the missionaries and many hundreds of converts were in semi-siege at the M. E. Mission for twelve days before going to the British Legation.

Who acts: Those, missionaries · What happens: read, remember, be, go · To what, where: events, semi-siege, British Legation · 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 (Those, missionaries), 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	Those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	13 remember	nsubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 read	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 read	aux
4	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Those	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 events	det
6	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 read	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 summer	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 summer	det
9	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 summer	amod
10	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 events	nmod
11	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	4 read	advmod
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 remember	aux
13	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 semi-siege	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 missionaries	det
16	missionaries	missionary	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 semi-siege	nsubj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 hundreds	cc
18	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hundreds	amod
19	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 missionaries	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 converts	case
21	converts	convert	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 hundreds	nmod
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 semi-siege	cop
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 semi-siege	case
24	semi-siege	semi-siege	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 remember	ccomp
25	at	at	ADP	_	29 Mission	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Mission	det
27	M.	M.	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Mission	compound
28	E.	E.	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Mission	compound
29	Mission	Mission	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 semi-siege	nmod
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 days	case
31	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 days	nummod
32	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 remember	obl
33	before	before	SCONJ	_	34 going	mark
34	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 remember	advcl
35	to	to	ADP	_	38 Legation	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Legation	det
37	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 Legation	amod
38	Legation	Legation	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 going	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 remember	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	present · perfect		the events of the past summer			who nsubj; carefully property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent event=Topic
2	remember	future	Those			day		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the missionaries and many hundreds of converts		semi-siege		at the M. E. Mission	tree rules
4	go	gerund	Those not said here		the British Legation			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to legation=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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Chinese Heroism, sentence 9

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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Chinese Heroism, sentence 9