Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 10
Seven years ago she left her school home for the home of her husband who lived in the village of Lu T’ai, fifteen miles northeast of Peking.
Who acts: girl, husband · What happens: leave, live · To what, where: school, village
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Literary Glory. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, husband), 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 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 5 left | advmod |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 left | nsubj |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 school | nmod:poss |
| 7 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | obj |
| 8 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 left | advmod |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 home | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 home | det |
| 11 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 husband | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 husband | nmod:poss |
| 14 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 home | nmod |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 lived | nsubj |
| 16 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 husband | acl:relcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 village | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 village | det |
| 19 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lived | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Lu | case |
| 21 | Lu | Lu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 village | nmod |
| 22 | T’ai | T'ai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Lu | flat |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 northeast | punct |
| 24 | fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 miles | nummod |
| 25 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 northeast | compound |
| 26 | northeast | northeast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 village | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Peking | case |
| 28 | Peking | Peking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 northeast | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | girl | girl's school | for the home of girl's husband; ago, home property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent school=Theme for home=Recipient | |||
| 2 | live | past | girl's husband | the village of Lu and miles northeast of Peking | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in village=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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