Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Present, sentence 28
At last the robber captain could endure it no longer, and after one final effort to drive her away, he commanded that Mr. Lee be set free, and that he and his little daughter be escorted beyond the hill region by the robber band.
Who acts: robber captain, wail, Lee, robber band · What happens: endure, drive away, command, be, escort · To what, where: face, last, captain, wail, hill region · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (robber captain, wail, Lee, robber band), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 endure | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 captain | det |
| 4 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 captain | compound |
| 5 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 endure | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 endure | aux |
| 7 | endure | endure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 endure | obj |
| 9 | no | no | ADV | _ | 10 longer | advmod |
| 10 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 endure | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 effort | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 effort | cc |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 16 effort | case |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 effort | nummod |
| 15 | final | final | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 effort | amod |
| 16 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 endure | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 drive | mark |
| 18 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 effort | acl |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 drive | obj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 drive | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 commanded | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 commanded | nsubj |
| 23 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 endure | parataxis |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 free | mark |
| 25 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Lee | nmod:desc |
| 26 | Lee | Lee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 free | nsubj |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 free | cop |
| 28 | set | set | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 free | amod |
| 29 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 commanded | ccomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 escorted | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 escorted | cc |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 escorted | mark |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 escorted | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 daughter | cc |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 36 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 daughter | amod |
| 37 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 he | conj |
| 38 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 escorted | aux:pass |
| 39 | escorted | escort | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 commanded | conj |
| 40 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 43 region | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 region | det |
| 42 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 region | compound |
| 43 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 escorted | obl |
| 44 | by | by | ADP | _ | 47 band | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 band | det |
| 46 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 band | compound |
| 47 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 escorted | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 endure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | endure | could | the robber captain | face | last | one final effort parataxis; long property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Circumstance | ||
| 2 | drive away | to-infinitive | the robber captain not said here | captain | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 3 | command | past | wail | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | infinitive | Lee Mr. | free property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | escort | infinitive · passive | the robber band | wail | the hill region | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme beyond region=Destination |
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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