Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 30
Yü Yüch Ying immediately rose and went to the grave of her father-in-law, followed by the servant.
Who acts: Yü · What happens: rise, go, follow · To what, where: grave, 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 (Yü), 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 | Yü | Yü | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 rose | nsubj |
| 2 | Yüch | Yüch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Yü | flat |
| 3 | Ying | Ying | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Yü | flat |
| 4 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 5 rose | advmod |
| 5 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rose | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 grave | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 grave | det |
| 10 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 law | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 law | nmod:poss |
| 13 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 law | nsubj |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 law | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 law | case |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 in | punct |
| 17 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grave | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 followed | punct |
| 19 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 law | acl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 servant | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 servant | det |
| 22 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 followed | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | Yü | immediately property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Yü not said here | the grave of Yü's law father | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to grave=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | follow | participle | Yü's law father not said here | by the servant | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by servant=Location |
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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