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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 4

And then the friend came and promised the wife to stay by her husband to the end of the journey and care for him, and urged her to go home as it was late and the cart must be starting.

Who acts: friend, journey, cart · What happens: come, promise, stay, care, urge, go · To what, where: wife, friend

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 (friend, journey, cart), 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

ccadvmoddetnsubjccconjdetobjmarkxcompcasenmod:possoblcasedetoblcasedetnmodccconjcaseoblpunctccconjiobjmarkxcompadvmodmarknsubjcopadvclccdetnsubjauxauxconjpunctrootAndCCONJthenADVtheDETfriendNOUNcameVERBandCCONJpromisedVERBtheDETwifeNOUNtoPARTstayVERBbyADPherPRONhusbandNOUNtoADPtheDETendNOUNofADPtheDETjourneyNOUNandCCONJcareVERBforADPhimPRON,PUNCTandCCONJurgedVERBherPRONtoPARTgoVERBhomeADVasSCONJitPRONwasAUXlateADJandCCONJtheDETcartNOUNmustAUXbeAUXstartingVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AndandCCONJ_5 camecc
2thenthenADVPronType=Dem5 cameadvmod
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 frienddet
4friendfriendNOUNNumber=Sing5 camensubj
5camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6andandCCONJ_7 promisedcc
7promisedpromiseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 cameconj
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 wifedet
9wifewifeNOUNNumber=Sing7 promisedobj
10totoPART_11 staymark
11staystayVERBVerbForm=Inf7 promisedxcomp
12bybyADP_14 husbandcase
13herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs14 husbandnmod:poss
14husbandhusbandNOUNNumber=Sing11 stayobl
15totoADP_17 endcase
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 enddet
17endendNOUNNumber=Sing11 stayobl
18ofofADP_20 journeycase
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 journeydet
20journeyjourneyNOUNNumber=Sing17 endnmod
21andandCCONJ_22 carecc
22carecareVERBVerbForm=Inf11 stayconj
23forforADP_24 himcase
24himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 careobl
25,,PUNCT_27 urgedpunct
26andandCCONJ_27 urgedcc
27urgedurgeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 cameconj
28hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs27 urgediobj
29totoPART_30 gomark
30gogoVERBVerbForm=Inf27 urgedxcomp
31homehomeADV_30 goadvmod
32asasSCONJ_35 latemark
33ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs35 latensubj
34wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin35 latecop
35latelateADJDegree=Pos30 goadvcl
36andandCCONJ_41 startingcc
37thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art38 cartdet
38cartcartNOUNNumber=Sing41 startingnsubj
39mustmustAUXVerbForm=Fin41 startingaux
40bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf41 startingaux
41startingstartVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part35 lateconj
42..PUNCT_5 camepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1comepastthe friendthenvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2promise speech: promisepastthe friend not said herethe wifevn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient clause=Topic
3stay not said to happento-infinitivethe friend not said hereto the end of the journeyby friend's husbandvn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by husband=Location
4careinfinitivethe friend not said herefor husbandvn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for he=Theme
5urgepastthe friend not said herefriendvn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
6go not said to happento-infinitivethe friend not said herehome propertyvn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7ispastjourneylate propertytree rules
8startmust · progressivethe cartvn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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