Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 44

Then he went on and told how he came to start out in search of his father, the long, lonely road; how and why his father was banished.

Who acts: Ting · What happens: go on, tell, come, start out, banish, search · To what, where: search, father · 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 (Ting), 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	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 told	cc
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 came	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 told	ccomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 start	mark
11	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 came	xcomp
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 start	compound:prt
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 search	case
14	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 start	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 father	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 father	nmod:poss
17	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 search	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 road	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 road	det
20	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 road	amod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 long	punct
22	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 road	amod
23	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 father	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 banished	punct
25	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	31 banished	advmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 banished	cc
27	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	31 banished	advmod
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 father	nmod:poss
29	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 banished	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 banished	aux:pass
31	banished	banish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 went	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	go on	past	Ting			then	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	Ting not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come	past	Ting				tree rules
4	start out	to-infinitive	Ting not said here		search of Ting's father and the long lonely road		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	banish	past · passive		Ting's father			vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	search			Ting's father and the long lonely road			nom search «act transitive»: of=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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 44

The tree

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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 44