Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 17
Also two women-servants were waiting in the cart for her.
Who acts: two women · What happens: wait · To what, where: cart
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 (two women), 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 | Also | also | ADV | _ | 7 waiting | advmod |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 women | nummod |
| 3 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 waiting | nsubj |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 servants | punct |
| 5 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 women | conj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 waiting | aux |
| 7 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 cart | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cart | det |
| 10 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 waiting | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 waiting | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 waiting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past · progressive | two women and servants | the cart | for strength | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cart=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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