Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 126
Then came the other servants one after another.
What happens: come · To what, where: other servants
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 came | advmod |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 servants | det |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 servants | amod |
| 5 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 came | obj |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 servants | flat |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 another | case |
| 8 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 one | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the other servants | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location servant=Theme |
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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