Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 16

Mr. Tu said that he had in his charge forty thousand pieces of silver; and caused the logs to be opened as proof, only to find to his dismay the silver gone and brick in its place.

Who acts: Tu, silver · What happens: say, have, cause, open, find, go · To what, where: charge, logs, dismay · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Tu, silver), 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 Tu	nmod:desc
2	Tu	Tu	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 had	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 charge	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 charge	nmod:poss
9	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obl
10	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 thousand	compound
11	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 pieces	nummod
12	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 charge	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 silver	case
14	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pieces	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 caused	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 caused	cc
17	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 logs	det
19	logs	log	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 caused	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	22 opened	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 opened	aux:pass
22	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 caused	advcl
23	as	as	ADP	_	24 proof	case
24	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 opened	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 find	punct
26	only	only	ADV	_	28 find	advmod
27	to	to	PART	_	28 find	mark
28	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 caused	conj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 dismay	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 dismay	nmod:poss
31	dismay	dismay	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 find	obl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 silver	det
33	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 gone	nsubj
34	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 dismay	acl:relcl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 brick	cc
36	brick	brick	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 dismay	conj
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 place	case
38	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 place	nmod:poss
39	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 brick	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Tu Mr.				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	past	Tu		Tu's charge thousand pieces of silver		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	cause	past		the logs			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition log=Patient
4	open	to-infinitive · passive				as proof	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»
5	find	to-infinitive				to Tu's dismay and brick in silver's place	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
6	go	participle	the silver	Tu's dismay and brick in silver's place not said here			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dismay=Theme
7	charge		Tu				nom charge «act transitive»: poss=agent
8	dismay		Tu				nom dismay «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 16

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 16