🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 101

It was opened and they came in, saying, “For the first time we have heard what sounded like a quarrel, and have come to see what it is about.”

Who acts: crying, we, Meantime · What happens: open, come in, say, hear, sound, come · To what, where: Meantime · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (crying, we, Meantime), 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

Pragmatics

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/19/101/