Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 60
“Literary Glory” ran out of the house and out into a field, but was overtaken and most brutally hacked to pieces.
Who acts: Literary Glory · What happens: run, overtake, hack · To what, where: house
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 (Literary Glory), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Glory | punct |
| 2 | Literary | literary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Glory | amod |
| 3 | Glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Glory | punct |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ran | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 field | cc |
| 11 | out | out | ADV | _ | 14 field | advmod |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 field | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 field | det |
| 14 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 house | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 overtaken | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 overtaken | cc |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 overtaken | aux:pass |
| 18 | overtaken | overtake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 ran | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 hacked | cc |
| 20 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 21 brutally | advmod |
| 21 | brutally | brutally | ADV | _ | 22 hacked | advmod |
| 22 | hacked | hack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 overtaken | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 pieces | case |
| 24 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 hacked | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | Literary Glory | the house and a field | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out house=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | overtake | past · passive | Literary Glory not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | hack | participle | Literary Glory not said here | to pieces result; brutally property | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to piece=Result |
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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