Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 84
When the cart reached the place, by the use of a little money Mr. Wang arranged with the carter and escort soldiers to allow Mr. Kao to get out of the cart and have this quiet last talk with his wife.
Who acts: cart, this · What happens: reach, arrange, allow, get out, have, talk · To what, where: place, Mr., cart, little money
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 (cart, this), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 4 reached | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cart | det |
| 3 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 arranged | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 place | det |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 use | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 use | det |
| 10 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 arranged | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 money | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 money | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 money | amod |
| 14 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 use | nmod |
| 15 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Wang | nmod:desc |
| 16 | Wang | Wang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 money | appos |
| 17 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 carter | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 carter | det |
| 20 | carter | carter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 arranged | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 soldiers | cc |
| 22 | escort | escort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 soldiers | compound |
| 23 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 carter | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 allow | mark |
| 25 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 arranged | advcl |
| 26 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 allow | iobj |
| 27 | Kao | Kao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Mr. | flat |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 get | mark |
| 29 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 allow | xcomp |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 33 cart | case |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 cart | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 cart | det |
| 33 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 get | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 have | cc |
| 35 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 get | conj |
| 36 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 39 talk | nsubj |
| 37 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 talk | amod |
| 38 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 talk | amod |
| 39 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 have | obj |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 wife | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 wife | nmod:poss |
| 42 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 talk | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 arranged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | the cart | the place | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 2 | arrange | past | by the use of a little money; with the carter and escort soldiers | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by use=Destination | |||||
| 3 | allow | to-infinitive | Mr. | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer mr.=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | get out not said to happen | to-infinitive | the cart | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | have | present | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | talk | this | with Wang's wife | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | use | a little money | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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