Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 12
Ting Lang went with him, and his beautiful voice and handsome face won the hearts of all the workmen, and they joined in the choruses with a will, throwing all their strength into the work.
Who acts: Ting, beautiful voice, hearts · What happens: go, win, join, throw · To what, where: hearts, strength, work
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 (Ting, beautiful voice, hearts), 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 | Ting | ting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 2 | Lang | Lang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ting | appos |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 won | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 won | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 voice | nmod:poss |
| 9 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 voice | amod |
| 10 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 won | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 face | cc |
| 12 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 face | amod |
| 13 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 voice | conj |
| 14 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hearts | det |
| 16 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 won | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 workmen | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 workmen | det:predet |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 workmen | det |
| 20 | workmen | workman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 hearts | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 joined | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 joined | cc |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 joined | nsubj |
| 24 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 choruses | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 choruses | det |
| 27 | choruses | chorus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 joined | obl |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 will | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 will | det |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 choruses | acl:relcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 throwing | punct |
| 32 | throwing | throw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 joined | advcl |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 strength | det:predet |
| 34 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 strength | nmod:poss |
| 35 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 throwing | obj |
| 36 | into | into | ADP | _ | 38 work | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 work | det |
| 38 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 throwing | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Ting | with Lang | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | win | past | Ting's beautiful voice and handsome face | the hearts of all workmen | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | join | past | hearts = heart | in the choruses | vn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in chorus=Theme | ||||
| 4 | throw | gerund | hearts = heart not said here | hearts's strength | into the work result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer strength=Theme into work=Result |
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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