Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 119
Then the father called Ting Lang to prostrate himself before his grandparents, which he did, knocking his head to each three times.
Who acts: father · What happens: call, prostrate, do, knock · To what, where: father, grandparents, head · 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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 called | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 father | det |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 called | nsubj |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | Ting | Ting | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 called | xcomp |
| 6 | Lang | Lang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Ting | flat |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 prostrate | mark |
| 8 | prostrate | prostrate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 called | advcl |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 prostrate | obj |
| 10 | before | before | ADP | _ | 12 grandparents | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 grandparents | nmod:poss |
| 12 | grandparents | grandparent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 prostrate | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 did | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 did | obj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 did | nsubj |
| 16 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 grandparents | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 knocking | punct |
| 18 | knocking | knock | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 did | advcl |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 head | nmod:poss |
| 20 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 knocking | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 times | case |
| 22 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 times | det |
| 23 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 times | nummod |
| 24 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 knocking | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | the father | then | Ting xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | prostrate | to-infinitive | the father not said here | father | before father's grandparents | tree rules | |||
| 3 | do | past | father | father's grandparents | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | knock | gerund | father not said here | father's head | time | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
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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