Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 70

The theatre man came up and declared the boy was his; upon which Mr. Wang quarrelled with him, and in the fight that followed the man was killed.

Who acts: theatre man, boy, Wang, that · What happens: come up, declare, be, quarrell, follow, kill · To what, where: boy, fight, 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 (theatre man, boy, Wang, that), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	theatre	theatre	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 man	compound
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 declared	cc
7	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boy	det
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 declared	obj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 his	cop
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 boy	acl:relcl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 quarrelled	punct
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 which	case
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 quarrelled	obl
15	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Wang	nmod:desc
16	Wang	Wang	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 quarrelled	nsubj
17	quarrelled	quarrell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 quarrelled	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 followed	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 followed	cc
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 fight	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 fight	det
24	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 followed	obl
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 followed	nsubj
26	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	parataxis
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 man	det
28	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 killed	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 killed	aux:pass
30	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 followed	ccomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come up	past	the theatre man				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	declare speech: other	past	the theatre man not said here	the boy			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Attribute
3	is a	past	the boy not said here	boy			tree rules
4	quarrell	past	Wang Mr.			with boy; which obl	tree rules
5	follow	past	that		the fight		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	kill	past · passive		the man			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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 70

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 70