Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 19
Mr. Tu had a son, who was married to the daughter of a well-known official who, on the murder of the father-in-law of his daughter, came forward and saved the family from the murderous hands of Yen Sung.
Who acts: Tu · What happens: have, marry, know, come forward, save, murder · To what, where: son, family, murderous hands, law
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), 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 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 son | det |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 married | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 married | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 married | aux:pass |
| 9 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 son | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 daughter | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 daughter | det |
| 12 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 married | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 official | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 official | det |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 known | advmod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 well | punct |
| 17 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 official | amod |
| 18 | official | official | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 daughter | nmod |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 murder | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 murder | punct |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 murder | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 murder | det |
| 23 | murder | murder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 official | acl:relcl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 law | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 law | det |
| 26 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 law | nsubj |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 law | punct |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 law | case |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 in | punct |
| 30 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 murder | nmod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 daughter | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 33 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 law | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 came | punct |
| 35 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | parataxis |
| 36 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 35 came | advmod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 saved | cc |
| 38 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 came | conj |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 family | det |
| 40 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 saved | obj |
| 41 | from | from | ADP | _ | 44 hands | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 hands | det |
| 43 | murderous | murderous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 hands | amod |
| 44 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 saved | obl |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 Sung | case |
| 46 | Yen | Yen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 Sung | compound |
| 47 | Sung | Sung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 hands | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Tu Mr. | a son | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | ||||
| 2 | marry | past · passive | a son | to the daughter of a known official on the murder a known official on the murder of the law of the law father of Tu's daughter | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to daughter=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | know | participle | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | come forward | past | forward property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | save | past | the family | the murderous hands of Yen Sung | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent family=Theme from hand=Source | ||||
| 6 | murder | the law father of Tu's daughter | nom murder «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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