Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 14
That night after the great feast was over and, much under the influence of wine, all were sleeping, Yen Sung, with his steward and henchmen, removed the relief money from the logs, placed broken bricks in the holes, and closed the logs as they were before.
Who acts: great feast, all, night, logs · What happens: be, sleep, remove, place, break, close · To what, where: night, Yen Sung, relief money, logs, broken bricks, holes
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great feast, all, night, logs), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 night | det |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 removed | nsubj |
| 3 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 8 over | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 feast | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 feast | amod |
| 6 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 over | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 over | cop |
| 8 | over | over | ADV | _ | 2 night | acl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 influence | cc |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 influence | punct |
| 11 | much | much | ADV | _ | 14 influence | advmod |
| 12 | under | under | ADP | _ | 14 influence | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 influence | det |
| 14 | influence | influence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 night | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 wine | case |
| 16 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 influence | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sleeping | punct |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 sleeping | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 sleeping | aux |
| 20 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 influence | acl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Sung | punct |
| 22 | Yen | Yen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Sung | compound |
| 23 | Sung | Sung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 sleeping | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 steward | punct |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 steward | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 steward | nmod:poss |
| 27 | steward | steward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sleeping | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 henchmen | cc |
| 29 | henchmen | henchman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 steward | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 night | punct |
| 31 | removed | remove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 money | det |
| 33 | relief | relief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 money | compound |
| 34 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 removed | obj |
| 35 | from | from | ADP | _ | 37 logs | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 logs | det |
| 37 | logs | log | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 removed | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 placed | punct |
| 39 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 logs | acl |
| 40 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 bricks | amod |
| 41 | bricks | brick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 placed | obj |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 holes | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 holes | det |
| 44 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 placed | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 closed | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 closed | cc |
| 47 | closed | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 removed | conj |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 logs | det |
| 49 | logs | log | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 closed | obj |
| 50 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 53 before | mark |
| 51 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 53 before | nsubj |
| 52 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 53 before | cop |
| 53 | before | before | ADV | _ | 47 closed | advcl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 removed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the great feast | that night and the influence of wine not said here | over property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sleep | past · progressive | all | Yen Sung | with caravan's steward and henchmen | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent influence=Theme | |||
| 3 | remove | past | that night and the influence of wine | the relief money | the logs | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent money=Theme from log=Source | |||
| 4 | place | participle | the logs not said here | broken bricks | the holes | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent brick=Theme in hole=Destination | |||
| 5 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 6 | close | past | that night and the influence of wine not said here | the logs | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent log=Patient | ||||
| 7 | is | past | logs = log | before property | tree rules |
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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