Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 19
The day after I was married my husband took all my books and cards and put them in the fire.
Who acts: day · What happens: marry, take, put · To what, where: I, books, fire
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 (day), 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 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | nsubj |
| 3 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 6 married | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 married | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 married | aux:pass |
| 6 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 day | acl:relcl |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 husband | nmod:poss |
| 8 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 married | obj |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 books | det:predet |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 books | nmod:poss |
| 12 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 took | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 cards | cc |
| 14 | cards | card | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 books | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 put | cc |
| 16 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 took | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 put | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 fire | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 fire | det |
| 20 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 put | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past · passive | the day not said here | I | my husband obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | take | past | the day | my books and cards | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme | ||||
| 3 | put | infinitive | the day not said here | books = book | the fire | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in fire=Destination |
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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