Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 75
After reaching the city of Hsiang Yang, to which he had been banished, he was obliged to walk about with chain and ball attached to his feet, carrying a gun on his shoulder.
What happens: reach, banish, oblige, walk, attach, carry · To what, where: city, Yang, chain, gun, shoulder
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: 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 | SCONJ | _ | 2 reaching | mark |
| 2 | reaching | reach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 obliged | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 city | det |
| 4 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reaching | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Yang | case |
| 6 | Hsiang | Hsiang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Yang | compound |
| 7 | Yang | Yang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 city | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 banished | punct |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 banished | obl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 banished | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 banished | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 banished | aux:pass |
| 14 | banished | banish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 reaching | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 reaching | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 obliged | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 obliged | aux:pass |
| 18 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 walk | mark |
| 20 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 obliged | xcomp |
| 21 | about | about | ADV | _ | 20 walk | advmod |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 chain | case |
| 23 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 walk | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 ball | cc |
| 25 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 chain | conj |
| 26 | attached | attach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 chain | acl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 feet | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 feet | nmod:poss |
| 29 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 attached | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 carrying | punct |
| 31 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 walk | advcl |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 gun | det |
| 33 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 carrying | obj |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 shoulder | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 36 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 carrying | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 obliged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | gerund | the city of Hsiang Yang | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent city=Theme | |||||
| 2 | banish | past · perfect · passive | Yang | which obl | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to which=Destination | ||||
| 3 | oblige | past · passive | Yang | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 4 | walk | to-infinitive | with chain and ball; about property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | attach | participle | chain and ball not said here | to Yang's feet | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to foot=Co-Patient | ||||
| 6 | carry | gerund | a gun | Yang's shoulder | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=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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