Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 7
Together they went back to the city, and some weeks later the poor heart was comforted by the birth of her little son.
Who acts: gods, birth · What happens: go back, comfort · To what, where: poor heart
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 (gods, birth), 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 | Together | together | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 city | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 city | det |
| 7 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 comforted | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 comforted | cc |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 weeks | det |
| 11 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 later | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 comforted | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 heart | det |
| 14 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 heart | amod |
| 15 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 comforted | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 comforted | aux:pass |
| 17 | comforted | comfort | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 went | conj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 birth | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 birth | det |
| 20 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 comforted | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 son | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 son | nmod:poss |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 son | amod |
| 24 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 birth | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | gods = god | to the city result; together property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to city=Result | ||||
| 2 | comfort | past · passive | the birth of friend's little son | the poor heart | late property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |
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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