Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 66
After the feast the students all waited outside the Hall for Yen Sung to come for audience with the Emperor.
Who acts: students · What happens: wait, come · To what, where: Hall
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 (students), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 feast | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 feast | det |
| 3 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 waited | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 students | det |
| 5 | students | student | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 waited | nsubj |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 waited | advmod |
| 7 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 10 Hall | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Hall | det |
| 10 | Hall | Hall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 waited | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 Yen | case |
| 12 | Yen | Yen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 waited | obl |
| 13 | Sung | Sung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Yen | flat |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 come | mark |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 waited | advcl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 audience | case |
| 17 | audience | audience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 come | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 Emperor | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Emperor | det |
| 20 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 audience | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | the students | the Hall | after the feast | for Yen; all property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme outside hall=Location | ||
| 2 | come | to-infinitive | the students not said here | for audience with the Emperor | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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