Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 8
The silver was inclosed in logs, and loaded on long carts.
What happens: inclose, load · To what, where: silver, logs, long carts
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 silver | det |
| 2 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 inclosed | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 inclosed | aux:pass |
| 4 | inclosed | inclose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 logs | case |
| 6 | logs | log | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 inclosed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 loaded | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 loaded | cc |
| 9 | loaded | load | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 inclosed | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 carts | case |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 carts | amod |
| 12 | carts | cart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 loaded | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 inclosed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inclose | past · passive | the silver | logs | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | load | participle | long carts | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on cart=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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