Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Present, sentence 20
She then started off alone and after miles of weary walking she reached the place at nightfall.
Who acts: Jade · What happens: start off, reach · To what, where: place, nightfall
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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 started | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 started | advmod |
| 3 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 started | compound:prt |
| 5 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 3 started | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 reached | cc |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 miles | case |
| 8 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 reached | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 walking | case |
| 10 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 walking | amod |
| 11 | walking | walking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reached | obl |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 reached | nsubj |
| 13 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 started | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 place | det |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reached | obj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 nightfall | case |
| 17 | nightfall | nightfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reached | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start off | past | Jade | then | alone property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | reach | past | Jade | the place | nightfall | after miles | of weary walking | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent place=Theme at nightfall=Asset |
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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