Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 72

That night a slave in the home was bound and killed and taken in the early morning and placed against the gate of Mr. Kao’s house.

What happens: bind, kill, take, place · To what, where: slave, gate

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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bound	obl:unmarked
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 slave	det
4	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bound	nsubj:pass
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 home	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 home	det
7	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slave	nmod
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 bound	aux:pass
9	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 killed	cc
11	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 bound	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 taken	cc
13	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 bound	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 morning	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 morning	det
16	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 morning	amod
17	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 taken	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 placed	cc
19	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 bound	conj
20	against	against	ADP	_	22 gate	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 gate	det
22	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 placed	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	27 house	case
24	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Kao	nmod:desc
25	Kao	Kao	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 house	nmod:poss
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 Kao	case
27	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gate	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 bound	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	bind	past · passive	a slave in the home		night	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	kill	participle				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	take	participle			morning	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	place	participle		the gate of Kao Mr.'s house		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent against gate=Destination

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 72

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 72