Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 67

On the boat were some wicked men who took his money and clothing, and when they reached Lui Ching, sold him to a theatre man.

Who acts: wicked men, men · What happens: be, take, reach, sell · To what, where: wicked men, boat, money, Lui Ching, boy, theatre man

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 (wicked men, men), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 boat	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boat	det
3	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 men	obl
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 men	cop
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 men	det
6	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 men	amod
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 took	nsubj
9	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 men	acl:relcl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 money	nmod:poss
11	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 clothing	cc
13	clothing	clothing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 money	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sold	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sold	cc
16	when	when	SCONJ	_	18 reached	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 reached	nsubj
18	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 sold	advcl
19	Lui	Lui	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Ching	compound
20	Ching	Ching	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 reached	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 reached	punct
22	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 took	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 sold	obj
24	to	to	ADP	_	27 man	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 man	det
26	theatre	theatre	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 man	compound
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sold	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 men	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past		some wicked men		the boat	tree rules
2	take	past	some wicked men	boy's money and clothing			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
3	reach	past	men = man	Lui Ching			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ching=Theme
4	sell	past	some wicked men not said here	boy	a theatre man		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to man=Recipient

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 67

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 67