Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 25
On the road her chair passed Nien Chi, the wicked steward of Yen Sung, who was out with some of his companions for a ride.
Who acts: chair, wicked steward · What happens: pass, be · To what, where: Nien, road
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 (chair, wicked steward), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 road | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 road | det |
| 3 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 passed | obl |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 chair | nmod:poss |
| 5 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 passed | nsubj |
| 6 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Nien | Nien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 passed | obj |
| 8 | Chi | Chi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Nien | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 steward | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 steward | det |
| 11 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 steward | amod |
| 12 | steward | steward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Nien | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Yen | case |
| 14 | Yen | Yen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 steward | nmod |
| 15 | Sung | Sung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Yen | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 out | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 out | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 out | cop |
| 19 | out | out | ADV | _ | 12 steward | parataxis |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 some | case |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 out | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 companions | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 companions | nmod:poss |
| 24 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 some | nmod |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 ride | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 ride | det |
| 27 | ride | ride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 companions | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | Ying's chair | Nien | the road | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent nien=Theme on road=Destination | |||
| 2 | is | past | the wicked steward of Yen | with some of Yen's companions for a ride; out 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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