Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 128
After which the oldest family servants were sent north to Peking with letters for the mother of Ting Lang.
What happens: send · To what, where: oldest family servants, Peking
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: 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 | ADP | _ | 2 which | case |
| 2 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 sent | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 servants | det |
| 4 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 servants | amod |
| 5 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 servants | compound |
| 6 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sent | aux:pass |
| 8 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | north | north | ADV | _ | 8 sent | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Peking | case |
| 11 | Peking | Peking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sent | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 letters | case |
| 13 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sent | obl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 mother | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mother | det |
| 16 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sent | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Ting | case |
| 18 | Ting | Ting | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 mother | nmod |
| 19 | Lang | Lang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Ting | flat |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past · passive | the oldest family servants | Peking | with letters; for the mother of Ting; which obl; north property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to peking=Destination |
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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