Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 37

This was done after much protesting; then she accepted a few ounces of silver, and told them they might use the rest on the journey back.

Who acts: latter, ounces · What happens: do, accept, tell, use · To what, where: This, few ounces, ounces, rest, journey · 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 (latter, ounces), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 done	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 done	aux:pass
3	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	after	after	ADP	_	6 protesting	case
5	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 protesting	amod
6	protesting	protesting	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 done	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 accepted	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 accepted	advmod
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 accepted	nsubj
10	accepted	accept	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 done	parataxis
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 ounces	det
12	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ounces	amod
13	ounces	ounce	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 accepted	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 silver	case
15	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ounces	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 told	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 told	cc
18	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 accepted	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 told	iobj
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 use	nsubj
21	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 use	aux
22	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 told	ccomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 rest	det
24	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 use	obj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 journey	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 journey	det
27	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 use	obl
28	back	back	ADV	_	22 use	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	do	past · passive		This			after much protesting	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	accept	past	latter	a few ounces of silver			then	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ounce=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	latter not said here		ounces = ounce			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
4	use	might	ounces = ounce	the rest		the journey		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Patient

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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 37

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 37