Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 103
Saw how he had kept back and brought to death many a good, worthy official.
What happens: see, keep back, bring · To what, where: thing, many, death · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 4. 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 | Saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 kept | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 kept | aux |
| 5 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Saw | ccomp |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 kept | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 brought | cc |
| 8 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Saw | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 death | case |
| 10 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brought | obl |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 brought | obj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 official | det |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 official | amod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 good | punct |
| 15 | worthy | worthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 official | amod |
| 16 | official | official | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 many | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | keep back | past · perfect · passive | thing | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bring | past | many | death | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent many=Theme to death=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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