Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 123

As the men rode away, the bystanders all said, “That is your father.

Who acts: men, bystanders, That · What happens: ride away, say, be · To what, where: father · 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 (men, bystanders, That), 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	_	4 rode	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 men	det
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rode	nsubj
4	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	advcl
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 rode	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 rode	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bystanders	det
8	bystanders	bystander	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 said	nsubj
9	all	all	ADV	_	10 said	advmod
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 father	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 father	punct
13	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 father	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 father	cop
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 father	nmod:poss
16	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ride away	past	the men		away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the bystanders		all property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present	That	your father	your nmod:poss	tree rules

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 123

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 123