Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 81
When the day set to take him away came, she went with her woman to the place arranged, and then waited, with sad and heavy heart, for the cart which was to bring her husband for a short talk and then take him away from her forever.
Who acts: day set, news, place, cart · What happens: take away, come, go, arrange, wait, be · To what, where: set
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 (day set, news, place, cart), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 set | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | compound |
| 4 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 take | mark |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 set | acl |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 take | obj |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 take | advmod |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 went | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 woman | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 woman | nmod:poss |
| 15 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 16 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 19 arranged | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 place | det |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 arranged | nsubj |
| 19 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 went | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 waited | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 waited | cc |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 waited | advmod |
| 23 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 went | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 heart | punct |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 heart | case |
| 26 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 heart | amod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 heavy | cc |
| 28 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 sad | conj |
| 29 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 waited | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 cart | punct |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 cart | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 cart | det |
| 33 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 waited | obl |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 bring | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 bring | cop |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 bring | mark |
| 37 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 cart | acl:relcl |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 husband | nmod:poss |
| 39 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 bring | obj |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 43 talk | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 talk | det |
| 42 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 talk | amod |
| 43 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 bring | obl |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 take | cc |
| 45 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 46 take | advmod |
| 46 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 bring | conj |
| 47 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 take | obj |
| 48 | away | away | ADV | _ | 46 take | advmod |
| 49 | from | from | ADP | _ | 50 her | case |
| 50 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 take | obl |
| 51 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 46 take | advmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take away | to-infinitive | the day set not said here | set | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | past | the day set | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go | past | news | with news's woman | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with woman=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | arrange | past | the place | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | wait | past | news not said here | then | for the cart; sad heart conj | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 6 | is | past | the cart | for a short talk; news's husband obj; bring property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | take away | infinitive | the cart not said here | set | then | from news; away, forever property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Theme from she=Initial_Location |
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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