Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Present, sentence 5
This, in time, reached the ears of the robbers, and they laid their plans accordingly.
Who acts: ears · What happens: reach, lay, plan · To what, where: ears, plans
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 (ears), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 time | det |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 This | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reached | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 6 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ears | det |
| 8 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 reached | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 robbers | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 robbers | det |
| 11 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ears | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 laid | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 laid | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 laid | nsubj |
| 15 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 reached | conj |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 plans | nmod:poss |
| 17 | plans | plan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 laid | obj |
| 18 | accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 15 laid | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | the ears of the robbers | time | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ear=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lay | past | ears = ear | ears's plans | accordingly property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Result | |||
| 3 | plan | ears = ear | nom plan «cognition transitive»: 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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