Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 126
When the boy heard this, he gathered his treasures together, and went into a temple near, where he sat down to think.
Who acts: boy · What happens: hear, gather, go, sit down, think, treasure · To what, where: this, treasures, temple
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 (boy), 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 | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gathered | advcl |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 heard | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 gathered | nsubj |
| 8 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 treasures | nmod:poss |
| 10 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 gathered | obj |
| 11 | together | together | ADV | _ | 8 gathered | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gathered | parataxis |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 temple | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 temple | det |
| 17 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 18 | near | near | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sat | punct |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 sat | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 sat | nsubj |
| 22 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 went | conj |
| 23 | down | down | ADV | _ | 22 sat | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 think | mark |
| 25 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 sat | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gathered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the boy | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | gather | past | boy | boy's treasures | together property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme | |||
| 3 | go | past | a temple | near property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into temple=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | sit down | past | boy | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | boy not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | treasure | boy | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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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