Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Present, sentence 21
She made direct for the cave and prostrating herself before the entrance she began to weep and wail for her father.
Who acts: Jade · What happens: make, prostrate, begin, weep, wail · To what, where: Jade, entrance
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 | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | direct | direct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 made | xcomp |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 cave | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cave | det |
| 6 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 prostrating | cc |
| 8 | prostrating | prostrate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 made | conj |
| 9 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 prostrating | obj |
| 10 | before | before | ADP | _ | 12 entrance | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 entrance | det |
| 12 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 prostrating | obl |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 began | nsubj |
| 14 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 entrance | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 weep | mark |
| 16 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 began | xcomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 wail | cc |
| 18 | wail | wail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 weep | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 father | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 father | nmod:poss |
| 21 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wail | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Jade | for the cave; direct property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for cave=Asset | ||||
| 2 | prostrate | gerund | Jade not said here | Jade | before the entrance | tree rules | |||
| 3 | begin | past | Jade | the entrance not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | weep | to-infinitive | Jade not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | wail | infinitive | Jade not said here | for Jade's father | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for father=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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