Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 71

Mr. Wang was arrested, but managed first to get the boy out of the city and, giving him a little money, went back to stand his trial.

Who acts: boy · What happens: arrest, manage, get, give, go back, stand · To what, where: Wang, boy, city, little money, trial

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 (boy), 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	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Wang	nmod:desc
2	Wang	Wang	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 arrested	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 arrested	aux:pass
4	arrested	arrest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 managed	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 managed	cc
7	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 arrested	conj
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 managed	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 get	mark
10	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 managed	xcomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 boy	det
12	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 get	obj
13	out	out	ADP	_	16 city	case
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 city	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 city	det
16	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 get	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 giving	cc
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 and	punct
19	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 get	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 giving	iobj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 money	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 money	amod
23	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 giving	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 went	punct
25	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 managed	parataxis
26	back	back	ADV	_	25 went	advmod
27	to	to	PART	_	28 stand	mark
28	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 went	xcomp
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 trial	nmod:poss
30	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stand	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 arrested	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	arrest	past · passive		Wang Mr.				vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	manage	past					first property	vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	get	to-infinitive		the boy		the city		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus
4	give	gerund		a little money	boy			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient money=Theme
5	go back	past						tree rules
6	stand	to-infinitive		boy's trial				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trial=Stimulus
7	try		boy					nom trial «act transitive»: poss=agent

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 71

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 71