Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 56
About noon I left, promising to visit her on my return from the place I was going to visit and hold a station class.
Who acts: noon, I, my · What happens: leave, promise, visit, go, hold, return · To what, where: woman, return, place, station class
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 (noon, I, my), 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 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 noon | advmod |
| 2 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | nsubj |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 left | nsubj |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 promising | punct |
| 6 | promising | promise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 left | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 visit | mark |
| 8 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 promising | xcomp |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 visit | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 return | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 return | nmod:poss |
| 12 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 visit | obl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 place | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 place | det |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 visit | obl |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 going | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 going | aux |
| 18 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 place | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 visit | mark |
| 20 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 going | xcomp |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 hold | cc |
| 22 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 visit | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 class | det |
| 24 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 class | compound |
| 25 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hold | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | noon | I nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | gerund | noon not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | visit not said to happen | to-infinitive | noon not said here | woman | my return | from the place | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | ||
| 4 | go | past · progressive | I | the place not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | visit | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | hold | infinitive | I not said here | a station class | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent class=Theme | ||||
| 7 | return | my | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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