Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 57
Alas! the death of a member of our station called me to Peking by the shortest road, and the next month the Boxer storm burst upon us.
Who acts: death, Boxer storm, member · What happens: call, burst, die · To what, where: me, Peking · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (death, Boxer storm, member), 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 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 11 called | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Alas | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 death | det |
| 4 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 called | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 member | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 member | det |
| 7 | member | member | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 death | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 station | case |
| 9 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 station | nmod:poss |
| 10 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 member | nmod |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 called | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Peking | case |
| 14 | Peking | Peking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 called | obl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 road | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 road | det |
| 17 | shortest | short | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 road | amod |
| 18 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 called | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 burst | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 burst | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 month | det |
| 22 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 month | amod |
| 23 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 burst | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 storm | det |
| 25 | Boxer | Boxer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 storm | compound |
| 26 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 burst | nsubj |
| 27 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 called | conj |
| 28 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 29 us | case |
| 29 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 burst | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | the death of a member of our station | me | Peking | by the shortest road | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Topic to peking=Recipient | ||
| 2 | burst | past | the Boxer storm | month | upon us | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon we=Location | |||
| 3 | die | a member of our station | nom death «event intransitive»: of=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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