Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Present, sentence 19

Without saying anything to the other members of the family she learned from questioning the villagers the location of the “Tigers’ Nest,” as the fastness of the thieves was called.

Who acts: Jade · What happens: say, learn, question, call · To what, where: anything, other members, villagers, fastness · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (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	Without	without	SCONJ	_	2 saying	mark
2	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 learned	advcl
3	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 saying	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 members	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 members	det
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 members	amod
7	members	member	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 saying	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 family	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 family	det
10	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 members	nmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 learned	nsubj
12	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	from	from	SCONJ	_	14 questioning	mark
14	questioning	question	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 learned	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 villagers	det
16	villagers	villager	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 questioning	obj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 location	det
18	location	location	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 questioning	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	24 Nest	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Nest	det
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 Nest	punct
22	Tigers	Tiger	PROPN	Number=Plur	24 Nest	nmod:poss
23	’	's	PART	_	22 Tigers	case
24	Nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 location	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 learned	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 learned	punct
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 called	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 fastness	det
29	fastness	fastness	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 called	nsubj:pass
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 thieves	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 thieves	det
32	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 fastness	nmod
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 called	aux:pass
34	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 learned	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 learned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund	Jade not said here	anything	the other members of the family		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent anything=Topic to member=Recipient
2	learn	past	Jade				vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	question speech: other	gerund	Jade not said here	the villagers		the location of Tigers's Nest obj	tree rules
4	call	past · passive		the fastness of the thieves			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Present, sentence 19

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Present, sentence 19