Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 45
It was with many sobs and tears that the story was told, and before he was through the lady was weeping with him.
Who acts: search, Ting, many sobs · What happens: be, tell, weep · To what, where: that · 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 (search, Ting, many sobs), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sobs | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sobs | cop |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 sobs | case |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sobs | amod |
| 5 | sobs | sob | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tears | cc |
| 7 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sobs | conj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 told | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 story | det |
| 10 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 told | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 told | aux:pass |
| 12 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 sobs | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 weeping | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 weeping | cc |
| 15 | before | before | ADP | _ | 20 lady | case |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 lady | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 lady | cop |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 lady | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 lady | det |
| 20 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 weeping | obl |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 weeping | aux |
| 22 | weeping | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 sobs | acl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 weeping | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sobs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | search | with many sobs and tears; tears conj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | that | the story nsubj:pass | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Ting | before the lady | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | weep | past · progressive | many sobs and tears not said here | with Ting | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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