Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Present, sentence 27
Many of the robbers were fathers and their hearts grew tender toward the little maid as hour after hour her wail fell upon their ears, and they saw her little face swollen and drawn with long weeping and fasting.
Who acts: Many, fathers, wail, robbers, little face, Jade · What happens: be, grow, fall, see, swell, draw · To what, where: fathers, tender, ears, little face
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 (Many, fathers, wail, 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fathers | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 robbers | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 robbers | det |
| 4 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Many | nmod |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fathers | cop |
| 6 | fathers | father | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 grew | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 hearts | cc |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fathers | conj |
| 10 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | tender | tender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grew | obj |
| 12 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 15 maid | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 maid | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 maid | amod |
| 15 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grew | obl |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 hour | case |
| 17 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 maid | nmod |
| 18 | after | after | ADP | _ | 19 hour | case |
| 19 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 maid | nmod |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 wail | nmod:poss |
| 21 | wail | wail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fell | nsubj |
| 22 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 grew | parataxis |
| 23 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 ears | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 ears | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 fell | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 saw | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 saw | cc |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 saw | nsubj |
| 29 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 grew | conj |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 face | nmod:poss |
| 31 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 face | amod |
| 32 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 saw | obj |
| 33 | swollen | swell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 saw | xcomp |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 drawn | cc |
| 35 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 swollen | conj |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 weeping | case |
| 37 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 weeping | amod |
| 38 | weeping | weeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 drawn | obl |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 fasting | cc |
| 40 | fasting | fasting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 weeping | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Many of the robbers | fathers and robbers's hearts | robbers's hearts conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | grow | past | fathers and robbers's hearts | tender | toward the little maid as hour after hour | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tender=Theme | |||
| 3 | fall | past | Jade's wail | robbers's ears | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon ear=Location | ||||
| 4 | see | past | robbers = robber | Jade's little face | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | swell | participle | Jade's little face not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | draw | participle | Jade's little face not said here | with long weeping and fasting | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | wail | Jade | nom wail «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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