Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Present, sentence 6
One night in the midst of the autumn harvest, while the farmers were celebrating with wine and music the “harvest festival,” the bandits came upon the village.
Who acts: farmers, bandits · What happens: celebrate, come · To what, where: harvest festival, village
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 (farmers, bandits), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 night | nummod |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 came | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 midst | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 midst | det |
| 5 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 night | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 harvest | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 harvest | det |
| 8 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 harvest | compound |
| 9 | harvest | harvest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 midst | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 celebrating | punct |
| 11 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 celebrating | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 farmers | det |
| 13 | farmers | farmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 celebrating | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 celebrating | aux |
| 15 | celebrating | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 night | advcl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 wine | case |
| 17 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 celebrating | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 music | cc |
| 19 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wine | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 festival | det |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 festival | punct |
| 22 | harvest | harvest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 festival | compound |
| 23 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 celebrating | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 night | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 night | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 bandits | det |
| 27 | bandits | bandit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 came | nsubj |
| 28 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 29 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 31 village | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 village | det |
| 31 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 came | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | celebrate | past · progressive | the farmers | the harvest festival | with wine and music | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent festival=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | past | the bandits | the village | night | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon village=Location |
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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