Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Present, sentence 3
Mr. Lee called his neighbours together and after talking over the existing conditions, they bound themselves together to act as watchmen and resist the thieves even to the death.
Who acts: Lee, neighbours · What happens: call, talk, exist, bound, act, resist · To what, where: neighbours, existing conditions, thieves · 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 (Lee, neighbours), 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 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Lee | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Lee | Lee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 called | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 neighbours | nmod:poss |
| 5 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 called | obj |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 called | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 bound | cc |
| 8 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 9 talking | mark |
| 9 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 bound | advcl |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 conditions | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 conditions | det |
| 12 | existing | exist | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 conditions | amod |
| 13 | conditions | condition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 talking | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 talking | punct |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 bound | nsubj |
| 16 | bound | bound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | conj |
| 17 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 bound | obj |
| 18 | together | together | ADV | _ | 16 bound | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 act | mark |
| 20 | act | act | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 bound | advcl |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 watchmen | case |
| 22 | watchmen | watchman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 act | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 resist | cc |
| 24 | resist | resist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 act | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 thieves | det |
| 26 | thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 resist | obj |
| 27 | even | even | ADV | _ | 30 death | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 death | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 death | det |
| 30 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 resist | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | Lee Mr. | Lee's neighbours | together property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent neighbour=Recipient | |||
| 2 | talk | gerund | neighbours = neighbour not said here | the existing conditions | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | exist | gerund | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | bound | present | neighbours = neighbour | neighbours = neighbour | together property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location themselves=Theme | |||
| 5 | act | to-infinitive | neighbours = neighbour not said here | as watchmen | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as watchman=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | resist | present | neighbours = neighbour not said here | the thieves | to the death | tree rules |
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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