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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 110

Then, turning to Hai Jui, he commanded him to call soldiers, to then and there take him to prison; to see that a day was appointed for trial.

Who acts: Hai · What happens: turn, command, call, take, see, appoint · To what, where: Hai, evil, soldiers, prison · 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: who acts (Hai), 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

advmodpunctadvclcaseoblflatpunctnsubjobjmarkxcompobjpunctcaseadvmodccconjconjobjcaseoblpunctmarkconjmarkdetobl:unmarkedaux:passccompcaseoblpunctrootThenADV,PUNCTturningVERBtoADPHaiPROPNJuiPROPN,PUNCThePRONcommandedVERBhimPRONtoPARTcallVERBsoldiersNOUN,PUNCTtoADPthenADVandCCONJthereADVtakeVERBhimPRONtoADPprisonNOUN;PUNCTtoPARTseeVERBthatSCONJaDETdayNOUNwasAUXappointedVERBforADPtrialNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem3 turningadvmod
2,,PUNCT_1 Thenpunct
3turningturnVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part9 commandedadvcl
4totoADP_5 Haicase
5HaiHaiPROPNNumber=Sing3 turningobl
6JuiJuiPROPNNumber=Sing5 Haiflat
7,,PUNCT_3 turningpunct
8hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 commandednsubj
9commandedcommandVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
10himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 commandedobj
11totoPART_12 callmark
12callcallVERBVerbForm=Inf9 commandedxcomp
13soldierssoldierNOUNNumber=Plur12 callobj
14,,PUNCT_16 thenpunct
15totoADP_16 thencase
16thenthenADVPronType=Dem12 calladvmod
17andandCCONJ_18 therecc
18therethereADVPronType=Dem16 thenconj
19taketakeVERBVerbForm=Inf12 callconj
20himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 takeobj
21totoADP_22 prisoncase
22prisonprisonNOUNNumber=Sing19 takeobl
23;;PUNCT_25 seepunct
24totoPART_25 seemark
25seeseeVERBVerbForm=Inf9 commandedconj
26thatthatSCONJ_30 appointedmark
27aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art28 daydet
28daydayNOUNNumber=Sing30 appointedobl:unmarked
29wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin30 appointedaux:pass
30appointedappointVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass25 seeccomp
31forforADP_32 trialcase
32trialtrialNOUNNumber=Sing30 appointedobl
33..PUNCT_9 commandedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1turngerundHai not said hereHaithenvn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to hai=Result
2commandpastHaievilvn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3call not said to happento-infinitiveHai not said heresoldiersvn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent soldier=Recipient
4takeinfinitiveHai not said hereevilprisonvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to prison=Destination
5seeto-infinitiveHai not said herevn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6appointpast · passivedayfor trialvn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»

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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