Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 25

After he revived and was quite himself again, she asked him who he was and how old; why he had left his mother and come to another province, as she could tell by his voice that he was from the north.

Who acts: boy, priest · What happens: revive, be, ask, leave, come, tell · To what, where: boy, mother, province, north · 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 (boy, priest), 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	SCONJ	_	3 revived	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 revived	nsubj
3	revived	revive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 asked	advcl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 himself	cc
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 himself	cop
6	quite	quite	ADV	_	7 himself	advmod
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 revived	conj
8	again	again	ADV	_	3 revived	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 revived	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 asked	nsubj
11	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 asked	iobj
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 old	nsubj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 old	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 old	cop
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 old	cc
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 old	advmod
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 asked	ccomp
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 left	punct
20	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	23 left	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 left	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 left	aux
23	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 asked	parataxis
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 mother	nmod:poss
25	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 left	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 come	cc
27	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 left	conj
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 province	case
29	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	30 province	det
30	province	province	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 come	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 tell	punct
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 tell	mark
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 tell	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 tell	aux
35	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 asked	conj
36	by	by	ADP	_	38 voice	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 voice	nmod:poss
38	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 tell	obl
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 north	mark
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 north	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 north	cop
42	from	from	ADP	_	44 north	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 north	det
44	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 tell	advcl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	revive	past	boy				again		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is a	past	boy not said here	boy					tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	past	priest		boy				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	is	past						who nsubj; boy nsubj; old property	tree rules
5	leave	past · perfect	boy	boy's mother					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Theme
6	come	infinitive	boy not said here			another province			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to province=Initial_Location
7	tell speech: assert	could	priest					by boy's voice	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	is	past	boy			the north			tree rules

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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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 25