Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 32

They moved to the other side of the grave, and again he followed, upon which she said to her woman:

Who acts: servants, father, Yü · What happens: move, follow, say · To what, where: other side, woman · 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 (servants, father, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 moved	nsubj
2	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 side	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 side	det
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 side	amod
6	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 moved	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 grave	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 grave	det
9	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 side	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 followed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 followed	cc
12	again	again	ADV	_	14 followed	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 followed	nsubj
14	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 moved	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
16	upon	upon	ADP	_	17 which	case
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 said	obl
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 moved	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 woman	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 woman	nmod:poss
22	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	obl
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 moved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	past	servants = servant		the other side of the grave			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to side=Trajectory
2	follow	past	father			again		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	Yü	Yü's woman			which obl	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to woman=Recipient

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 32

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 32