Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 56

As Ting Lang went down the steps he heard a fall and, going back, found the dear mother like unto one dead.

Who acts: Ting · What happens: go down, hear, go back, find · To what, where: steps, fall, dear mother

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 (Ting), 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 went	mark
2	Ting	Ting	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
3	Lang	Lang	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Ting	flat
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 found	advcl
5	down	down	ADP	_	7 steps	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 steps	det
7	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 heard	nsubj
9	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 steps	acl:relcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 fall	det
11	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heard	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 going	cc
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 going	punct
14	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 heard	conj
15	back	back	ADV	_	14 going	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
17	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 mother	det
19	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 mother	amod
20	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 found	obj
21	like	like	ADP	_	24 dead	case
22	unto	unto	ADP	_	24 dead	case
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 dead	nummod
24	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 mother	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go down	past	Ting	the steps		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient step=Extent
2	hear	past	Ting	a fall		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer fall=Stimulus
3	go back	gerund	Ting not said here			vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
4	find	past		the dear mother	like one dead	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Topic

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 56

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 56