Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 89
Ting Lang knelt at his father’s feet, and when the father saw him there he felt as though a knife had entered his heart.
Who acts: Ting, father · What happens: kneel, see, feel, enter · To what, where: feet, Lang, knife · 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, father), 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 knelt | nsubj |
| 2 | Lang | Lang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 knelt | nsubj |
| 3 | knelt | kneel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 feet | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 father | nmod:poss |
| 6 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 feet | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 father | case |
| 8 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 knelt | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 saw | cc |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 saw | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 father | det |
| 13 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knelt | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 saw | obj |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 saw | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 felt | nsubj |
| 18 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 saw | ccomp |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 felt | advmod |
| 20 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 24 entered | mark |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 knife | det |
| 22 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 entered | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 entered | aux |
| 24 | entered | enter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 felt | advcl |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 heart | nmod:poss |
| 26 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 entered | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knelt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kneel | past | Ting | Lang's father's feet | Lang nsubj | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location | |||
| 2 | see | past | the father | Lang | there | tree rules | |||
| 3 | feel | past | father | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | enter | past · perfect · passive | a knife | father's heart obj | 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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