Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 130
Then in came Ting Lang, followed by his brother.
What happens: come, follow · To what, where: Ting
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 | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 came | case |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Ting | Ting | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obj |
| 5 | Lang | Lang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Ting | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 followed | punct |
| 7 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 Ting | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 brother | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 brother | nmod:poss |
| 10 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 followed | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Ting | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ting=Theme | ||||
| 2 | follow | participle | Ting not said here | by Ting's brother | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by brother=Location |
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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