Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Present, sentence 25
They then became angry and tried to drive her away.
Who acts: robbers · What happens: become, try, drive away · To what, where: Jade
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 (robbers), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 became | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 became | advmod |
| 3 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 became | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 tried | cc |
| 6 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 became | conj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 drive | mark |
| 8 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 tried | xcomp |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 drive | obj |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 drive | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | robbers = robber | then | angry property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | try | past | robbers = robber not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | drive away not said to happen | to-infinitive | robbers = robber not said here | Jade | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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