Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 100
Meantime the old father and mother, having heard the crying and loud voices, came to the door.
Who acts: old father · What happens: have, hear, come · To what, where: heard crying, door, old father
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old father), 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 | Meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 father | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 father | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 father | amod |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 mother | cc |
| 6 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 father | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 having | punct |
| 8 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 father | acl |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 crying | amod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 crying | det |
| 11 | crying | crying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 having | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 voices | cc |
| 13 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 voices | amod |
| 14 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 crying | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 father | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 door | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 door | det |
| 19 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 father | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | the old father Meantime and mother not said here | the heard crying and loud voices | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crying=Patient | ||||
| 2 | hear | participle | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | come | past | the door | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location |
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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