Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Present, sentence 7
Mr. Lee called his followers together and a great fight took place in the moonlight.
Who acts: Lee, great fight · What happens: call, take · To what, where: followers, place, moonlight · 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, great fight), 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 followers | nmod:poss |
| 5 | followers | follower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 called | obj |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 called | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 took | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 fight | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fight | amod |
| 10 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | nsubj |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | conj |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 moonlight | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 moonlight | det |
| 15 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obl |
| 16 | . | . | 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 followers | together property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent follower=Recipient | |||
| 2 | take | past | a great fight | place | the moonlight | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Value in moonlight=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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