Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 37
“Mount at once and give chase.”
What happens: give · To what, where: chase, Mount
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: 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mount | punct |
| 2 | Mount | mount | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 once | case |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 Mount | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 give | cc |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Mount | conj |
| 7 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mount | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mount | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | infinitive | chase | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chase=Theme |
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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