Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Present, sentence 8
At last the robbers set fire to several houses in the village, and after stealing all they could carry away with them, departed.
Who acts: last robbers, robbers · What happens: set, steal, carry away, depart · To what, where: fire, village, all
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 (last robbers, robbers), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 robbers | amod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 robbers | det |
| 4 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 set | nsubj |
| 5 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 set | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 houses | case |
| 8 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 houses | amod |
| 9 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 set | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 village | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 village | det |
| 12 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 set | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 carry | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 carry | cc |
| 15 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 16 stealing | mark |
| 16 | stealing | steal | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 carry | advcl |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 stealing | obj |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 carry | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 carry | aux |
| 20 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 set | conj |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 carry | advmod |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 them | case |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 carry | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 departed | punct |
| 25 | departed | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 set | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | the last robbers | fire | the village | to several houses | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fire=Theme in village=Destination | ||
| 2 | steal | gerund | robbers = robber not said here | all | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location all=Theme | ||||
| 3 | carry away | could | robbers = robber | with villages = village; away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | depart | past | the last robbers not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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