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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 28

The mother, rushing out after him, only able to see with one eye, and not seeing her boy, but only hearing the splash as the brick struck the water, concluded that he had jumped into the well.

Who acts: mother, able, brick · What happens: rush out, see, not see, hear, strike, conclude · To what, where: boy, splash, water, well

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 (mother, able, brick), 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

detnsubjpunctaclcompound:prtcaseoblpunctadvmodnsubjmarkxcompcasenummodoblpunctccadvmodadvclnmod:possobjpunctccadvmodcsubjdetobjmarkdetnsubjadvcldetobjpunctconjmarknsubjccompcasedetoblpunctrootTheDETmotherNOUN,PUNCTrushingVERBoutADPafterADPhimPRON,PUNCTonlyADVableADJtoPARTseeVERBwithADPoneNUMeyeNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJnotPARTseeingVERBherPRONboyNOUN,PUNCTbutCCONJonlyADVhearingVERBtheDETsplashNOUNasSCONJtheDETbrickNOUNstruckVERBtheDETwaterNOUN,PUNCTconcludedVERBthatSCONJhePRONhadVERBjumpedVERBintoADPtheDETwellNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 motherdet
2mothermotherNOUNNumber=Sing10 ablensubj
3,,PUNCT_4 rushingpunct
4rushingrushVERBVerbForm=Ger2 motheracl
5outoutADP_4 rushingcompound:prt
6afterafterADP_7 himcase
7himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 rushingobl
8,,PUNCT_10 ablepunct
9onlyonlyADV_10 ableadvmod
10ableableADJDegree=Pos39 jumpednsubj
11totoPART_12 seemark
12seeseeVERBVerbForm=Inf10 ablexcomp
13withwithADP_15 eyecase
14oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card15 eyenummod
15eyeeyeNOUNNumber=Sing12 seeobl
16,,PUNCT_19 seeingpunct
17andandCCONJ_19 seeingcc
18notnotPARTPolarity=Neg19 seeingadvmod
19seeingseeVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part10 ableadvcl
20herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs21 boynmod:poss
21boyboyNOUNNumber=Sing19 seeingobj
22,,PUNCT_25 hearingpunct
23butbutCCONJ_25 hearingcc
24onlyonlyADV_25 hearingadvmod
25hearinghearVERBVerbForm=Ger39 jumpedcsubj
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 splashdet
27splashsplashNOUNNumber=Sing25 hearingobj
28asasSCONJ_31 struckmark
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 brickdet
30brickbrickNOUNNumber=Sing31 strucknsubj
31struckstrikeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 hearingadvcl
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 waterdet
33waterwaterNOUNNumber=Sing31 struckobj
34,,PUNCT_35 concludedpunct
35concludedconcludeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin31 struckconj
36thatthatSCONJ_38 hadmark
37hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs38 hadnsubj
38hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin35 concludedccomp
39jumpedjumpVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
40intointoADP_42 wellcase
41thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art42 welldet
42wellwellNOUNNumber=Sing39 jumpedobl
43..PUNCT_39 jumpedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1rush outgerundthe mother not said hereafter boyvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2seeto-infinitiveable the mother not said herewith one eyevn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3not seegerundable the mother not said heremother's boyvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus
4heargerundthe splashvn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer splash=Stimulus
5strikepastthe brickthe watervn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
6concludepastthe brick not said herevn deduce-97.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7havepastbrickvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8jumppastable the motherinto the well resultvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into well=Result

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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