Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 72

After many long, weary days of travel, but without serious trouble, the hungry, footsore, and weary boy found his way to the city to which he had been directed.

Who acts: weary boy · What happens: find, direct · To what, where: way, boy

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 (weary 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	After	after	ADP	_	6 days	case
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 days	amod
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 days	amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 long	punct
5	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 days	amod
6	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 travel	case
8	travel	travel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 days	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 trouble	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 trouble	cc
11	without	without	ADP	_	13 trouble	case
12	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 trouble	amod
13	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 days	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hungry	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hungry	det
16	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 trouble	amod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 footsore	punct
18	footsore	footsore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hungry	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 found	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 found	cc
21	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 boy	amod
22	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 found	nsubj
23	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 trouble	parataxis
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 way	nmod:poss
25	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 found	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 city	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 city	det
28	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 found	obl
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 which	case
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 directed	obl
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 directed	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 directed	aux
33	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 directed	aux:pass
34	directed	direct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 city	acl:relcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 days	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	weary boy	boy's way				to the city	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic
2	direct	past · perfect · passive		boy				to the city	vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: 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 72

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 72