Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 38
Soon after the procession, which had been forming in the village, came for them, with drums beating and banners flying.
Who acts: procession, drums · What happens: form, come, beat, banner, fly · To what, where: village
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (procession, drums), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 came | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 procession | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 procession | det |
| 4 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Soon | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 forming | punct |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 forming | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 forming | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 forming | aux |
| 9 | forming | form | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 procession | acl:relcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 village | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 village | det |
| 12 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 forming | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Soon | punct |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 came | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 beating | punct |
| 18 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 20 beating | mark |
| 19 | drums | drum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 beating | nsubj |
| 20 | beating | beat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 came | advcl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 banners | cc |
| 22 | banners | banner | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 beating | conj |
| 23 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 banners | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | past · perfect · progressive | the procession | the village | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in village=Location | ||||
| 2 | come | past | for children = child; soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | beat | gerund | drums | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | banner | present | drums not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | fly | gerund | drums not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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