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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 60

He knew the story of Ting Lang’s life; felt that the time had come to expose the great Yen Sung, so at the great feast following the examinations he wrote the following on slips of paper and sent them quietly among the students:

Who acts: feast, time, paper · What happens: know, feel, come, expose, follow, write · To what, where: story, great Yen Sung, great feast, slips, examinations

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 (feast, time, paper), 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

nsubjdetobjcasenmod:possflatcasenmodpunctparataxismarkdetnsubjauxadvclmarkxcompdetamodcompoundobjpunctadvmodcasedetamodoblcasedetnmodnsubjconjdetadvclcaseoblcasenmodccconjobjadvmodcasedetoblpunctrootHePRONknewVERBtheDETstoryNOUNofADPTingPROPNLangPROPN’sPARTlifeNOUN;PUNCTfeltVERBthatSCONJtheDETtimeNOUNhadAUXcomeVERBtoPARTexposeVERBtheDETgreatADJYenPROPNSungPROPN,PUNCTsoADVatADPtheDETgreatADJfeastNOUNfollowingVERBtheDETexaminationsNOUNhePRONwroteVERBtheDETfollowingVERBonADPslipsNOUNofADPpaperNOUNandCCONJsentVERBthemPRONquietlyADVamongADPtheDETstudentsNOUN:PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 knewnsubj
2knewknowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 storydet
4storystoryNOUNNumber=Sing2 knewobj
5ofofADP_9 lifecase
6TingTingPROPNNumber=Sing9 lifenmod:poss
7LangLangPROPNNumber=Sing6 Tingflat
8’s'sPART_6 Tingcase
9lifelifeNOUNNumber=Sing4 storynmod
10;;PUNCT_11 feltpunct
11feltfeelVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 knewparataxis
12thatthatSCONJ_16 comemark
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 timedet
14timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing16 comensubj
15hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin16 comeaux
16comecomeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part11 feltadvcl
17totoPART_18 exposemark
18exposeexposeVERBVerbForm=Inf16 comexcomp
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 Sungdet
20greatgreatADJDegree=Pos22 Sungamod
21YenYenPROPNNumber=Sing22 Sungcompound
22SungSungPROPNNumber=Sing18 exposeobj
23,,PUNCT_33 wrotepunct
24sosoADV_33 wroteadvmod
25atatADP_28 feastcase
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 feastdet
27greatgreatADJDegree=Pos28 feastamod
28feastfeastNOUNNumber=Sing33 wroteobl
29followingfollowVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part31 examinationscase
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 examinationsdet
31examinationsexaminationNOUNNumber=Plur28 feastnmod
32hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs33 wrotensubj
33wrotewriteVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 knewconj
34thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art35 followingdet
35followingfollowVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part33 wroteadvcl
36ononADP_37 slipscase
37slipsslipNOUNNumber=Plur35 followingobl
38ofofADP_39 papercase
39paperpaperNOUNNumber=Sing37 slipsnmod
40andandCCONJ_41 sentcc
41sentsendVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 knewconj
42themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs41 sentobj
43quietlyquietlyADV_41 sentadvmod
44amongamongADP_46 studentscase
45thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art46 studentsdet
46studentsstudentNOUNNumber=Plur41 sentobl
47::PUNCT_2 knewpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1knowpastfeastthe story of Ting's lifevn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus
2feelpastvn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3comepast · perfectthe timetree rules
4exposeto-infinitivethe time not said herethe great Yen Sungvn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sung=Topic
5followgerundvn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6writepastfeastthe great feast follow the examinationsvn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7followgerundfeast not said hereslips of papervn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on slip=Location
8sendpastfeast not said hereexaminations = examinationamong the students; quietly propertyvn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
9slippapernom slip «act intransitive»: of=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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