Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Present, sentence 2
For some years the country had been much troubled by mounted banditti who terrorized the people, stealing from them right and left.
Who acts: mounted banditti · What happens: trouble, mount, terrorize, steal, leave · To what, where: country, people
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 (mounted banditti), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 years | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 years | det |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 troubled | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 country | det |
| 5 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 troubled | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 troubled | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 troubled | aux:pass |
| 8 | much | much | ADV | _ | 9 troubled | advmod |
| 9 | troubled | trouble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 banditti | case |
| 11 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 banditti | amod |
| 12 | banditti | banditti | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 troubled | obl |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 terrorized | nsubj |
| 14 | terrorized | terrorize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 banditti | acl:relcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 people | det |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 terrorized | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stealing | punct |
| 18 | stealing | steal | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 troubled | parataxis |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 stealing | obl |
| 21 | right | right | ADV | _ | 18 stealing | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 left | cc |
| 23 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 stealing | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 troubled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trouble | past · perfect · passive | mounted banditti | the country | year | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | mount | participle | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | terrorize | past | mounted banditti | the people | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | steal | gerund | from people; right property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | leave | past | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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