Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 119
Just then a servant rushed in and said:
What happens: rush in, say · To what, where: servant · 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 2 then | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 said | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 servant | det |
| 4 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 then | nsubj |
| 5 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 servant | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADV | _ | 5 rushed | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush in | participle | a servant not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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