Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 27
Hearing this, the boy rushed from the room and out into the back court where there was a well and, as he ran by, he kicked a brick into the well and dashed into a grape arbour.
Who acts: boy · What happens: hear, rush, be, run by, kick, dash · To what, where: this, room, brick, well, grape arbour
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 | Hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 rushed | advcl |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Hearing | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hearing | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boy | det |
| 5 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rushed | nsubj |
| 6 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 room | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 room | det |
| 9 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rushed | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 court | cc |
| 11 | out | out | ADV | _ | 15 court | advmod |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 court | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 court | det |
| 14 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 court | compound |
| 15 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 room | nmod |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 was | advmod |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 was | expl |
| 18 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 court | advcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 well | det |
| 20 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 was | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 kicked | cc |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 and | punct |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 ran | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 ran | nsubj |
| 25 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 kicked | advcl |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 ran | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 ran | punct |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 kicked | nsubj |
| 29 | kicked | kick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 was | conj |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 brick | det |
| 31 | brick | brick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 kicked | obj |
| 32 | into | into | ADP | _ | 34 well | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 well | det |
| 34 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 kicked | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 dashed | cc |
| 36 | dashed | dash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 well | conj |
| 37 | into | into | ADP | _ | 40 arbour | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 arbour | det |
| 39 | grape | grape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 arbour | compound |
| 40 | arbour | arbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 dashed | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | the boy not said here | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | rush | past | the boy | the room into the back court | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from room=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | be | past | the boy not said here | there | well property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | run by | past | boy | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | kick | past | boy | a brick | into the well result | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent brick=Patient into well=Result | |||
| 6 | dash | participle | boy not said here | a grape arbour | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into arbour=Destination |
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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