Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 24

One day after the death of her father-in-law she took a serving-woman with her, and went in her chair to weep at his grave, and burn incense for his departed spirit.

Who acts: Ying, law · What happens: take, go, weep, burn, depart, die · To what, where: serving woman, chair, grave, incense

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 (Ying, law), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 took	obl:unmarked
3	after	after	ADP	_	5 death	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 death	det
5	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 day	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	12 law	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 law	nmod:poss
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 law	nsubj
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 law	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 law	case
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 in	punct
12	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 death	nmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 took	nsubj
14	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 woman	det
16	serving	serving	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 woman	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 serving	punct
18	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 took	obj
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 her	case
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 woman	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 went	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 went	cc
23	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 took	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 chair	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 chair	nmod:poss
26	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 went	obl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 weep	mark
28	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 went	advcl
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 grave	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 grave	nmod:poss
31	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 weep	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 burn	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 burn	cc
34	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 took	conj
35	incense	incense	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 burn	obj
36	for	for	ADP	_	39 spirit	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 spirit	nmod:poss
38	departed	depart	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 spirit	amod
39	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 burn	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Ying		a serving woman		day	with woman	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument woman=Destination
2	go	past	Ying not said here			Ying's chair			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in chair=Location
3	weep	to-infinitive	Ying not said here			father's grave			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	burn	infinitive	Ying not said here	incense				for father's departed spirit	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent incense=Theme
5	depart	participle							vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	die		Ying's law father						nom death «event intransitive»: of=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 24

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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 24