Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 9
The caravan had just reached the city gate when they were met by Yen Sung and his riders, just returning from a feast.
Who acts: Yen Sung · What happens: reach, meet, return · To what, where: caravan, carts, feast
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 (Yen Sung), 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 caravan | det |
| 2 | caravan | caravan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reached | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 reached | aux |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 reached | advmod |
| 5 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gate | det |
| 7 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gate | compound |
| 8 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reached | obj |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 met | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 met | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 met | aux:pass |
| 12 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 reached | advcl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 Sung | case |
| 14 | Yen | Yen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Sung | compound |
| 15 | Sung | Sung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 met | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 riders | cc |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 riders | nmod:poss |
| 18 | riders | rider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 Sung | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 returning | punct |
| 20 | just | just | ADV | _ | 21 returning | advmod |
| 21 | returning | return | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 met | advcl |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 feast | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 feast | det |
| 24 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 returning | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past · perfect · passive | the caravan | the city gate obj | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary gate=Theme | ||||
| 2 | meet | past · passive | Yen Sung and Shan's riders | carts = cart | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | return | gerund | Yen Sung and Shan's riders not said here | a feast | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from feast=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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