Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 109

As they neared the gate they saw a lot of people gathered about a young lad of remarkably fine face and form, but in very poor clothing.

Who acts: lives, lot · What happens: near, see, gather · To what, where: gate, poor clothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lives, lot), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 neared	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 neared	nsubj
3	neared	near	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 saw	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gate	det
5	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 neared	obj
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 saw	nsubj
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 lot	det
9	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gathered	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 people	case
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lot	nmod
12	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 saw	ccomp
13	about	about	ADP	_	16 lad	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 lad	det
15	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 lad	amod
16	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gathered	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 face	case
18	remarkably	remarkably	ADV	_	19 fine	advmod
19	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 face	amod
20	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lad	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 form	cc
22	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 face	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 clothing	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 clothing	cc
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 clothing	case
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 poor	advmod
27	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 clothing	amod
28	clothing	clothing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saw	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	near	past	lives = life	the gate			tree rules
2	see	past	lives = life		poor clothing		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	gather	past	a lot of people			about a young lad of fine face and form	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 2, sentence 109

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 109