Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Present, sentence 14
When, as the day wore on, he did not return she refused to be comforted.
Who acts: day, Lee, Jade · What happens: wear on, not return, refuse, not comfort
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Daughter of the Present. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (day, Lee, Jade), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 wore | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wore | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 wore | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wore | nsubj |
| 6 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 return | advcl |
| 7 | on | on | ADV | _ | 6 wore | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wore | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 return | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 return | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 return | advmod |
| 12 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 refused | nsubj |
| 14 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 return | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 comforted | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 comforted | aux:pass |
| 17 | comforted | comfort | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 refused | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 return | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear on | past | the day | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not return | past · do-support | Lee | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | refuse | past | Jade | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not comfort | to-infinitive · passive | Jade not said here | 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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