Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Present, sentence 4
Mr. Lee then went to the neighbouring villages and helped them to form little companies of volunteers for the same purpose.
Who acts: Lee, villages · What happens: go, help, form · To what, where: neighbouring villages, villages, little companies
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, villages), 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 | 4 went | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 went | advmod |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 villages | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 villages | det |
| 7 | neighbouring | neighbouring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 villages | compound |
| 8 | villages | village | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 went | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 helped | cc |
| 10 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 helped | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 form | mark |
| 13 | form | form | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 helped | xcomp |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 companies | amod |
| 15 | companies | company | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 form | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 volunteers | case |
| 17 | volunteers | volunteer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 companies | nmod |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 purpose | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 purpose | det |
| 20 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 purpose | amod |
| 21 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 form | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Lee Mr. | the neighbouring villages | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to village=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | help | past | Lee Mr. not said here | villages = village | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | form | to-infinitive | villages = village not said here | little companies of volunteers | for the same purpose | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent company=Result for purpose=Beneficiary |
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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