Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Present, sentence 29
At the close of the fourth day they arrived at their home, where there was great rejoicing and much praise for brave little Jade.
Who acts: robbers, great rejoicing · What happens: arrive, be · To what, where: close
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, great rejoicing), 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 | _ | 3 close | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 close | det |
| 3 | close | close | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 arrived | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 6 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 day | amod |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 close | nmod |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 arrived | nsubj |
| 9 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 home | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 home | nmod:poss |
| 12 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 arrived | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 was | punct |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 was | advmod |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 was | expl |
| 16 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 arrived | conj |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 rejoicing | amod |
| 18 | rejoicing | rejoicing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 was | nsubj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 praise | cc |
| 20 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 praise | amod |
| 21 | praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rejoicing | conj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 Jade | case |
| 23 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Jade | amod |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Jade | amod |
| 25 | Jade | Jade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 praise | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | robbers = robber | the close of the fourth day | at robbers's home | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | be | past | great rejoicing and much praise for brave little Jade | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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