Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 58
After the fury was spent and we could get news of those distant from us, we found that nine of the ten who belonged to us in that place had been cut down.
Who acts: we · What happens: spend, get, find, belong, cut down · To what, where: fury, news, us, place · 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 (we), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 spent | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fury | det |
| 3 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spent | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spent | aux:pass |
| 5 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 found | advcl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 get | cc |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 get | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 get | aux |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 spent | conj |
| 10 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 get | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 those | case |
| 12 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 news | nmod |
| 13 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 those | amod |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 us | case |
| 15 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 distant | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 spent | punct |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 found | nsubj |
| 18 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | that | that | ADP | _ | 20 nine | case |
| 20 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 belonged | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 ten | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ten | det |
| 23 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 nine | nmod |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 belonged | nsubj |
| 25 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 found | ccomp |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 us | case |
| 27 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 belonged | obl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 place | case |
| 29 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 place | det |
| 30 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 cut | obl |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 cut | aux |
| 32 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 33 cut | aux:pass |
| 33 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 belonged | parataxis |
| 34 | down | down | ADP | _ | 33 cut | compound:prt |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | past · passive | the fury | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset | |||||
| 2 | get | could | we | news of those | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | find | past | we | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | belong | past | us | that nine of the ten; who nsubj | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | cut down | past · perfect · passive | that place | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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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