Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 58

Yü Yüch Ying immediately arose, and seeing the man who had troubled her so, there in her own court, she said:

Who acts: Yü, man · What happens: arise, see, trouble, say · To what, where: man, Yü, own court · 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 (Yü, man), 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 arose	nsubj
2	Yüch	Yüch	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Yü	flat
3	Ying	Ying	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Yü	flat
4	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	5 arose	advmod
5	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 said	cc
8	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 said	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seeing	obj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 troubled	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 troubled	aux
13	troubled	trouble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 man	acl:relcl
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 troubled	obj
15	so	so	ADV	_	13 troubled	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 seeing	punct
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 said	expl
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 court	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 court	nmod:poss
20	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 court	amod
21	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 said	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 court	punct
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 said	nsubj
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 arose	conj
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 arose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	arise	past	Yü			immediately property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	gerund	Yü not said here	the man			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
3	trouble	past · perfect	the man	Yü			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
4	say speech: assert	past	Yü		Yü's own court; there		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in court=Manner

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 58

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 58