Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 73

With that he attempted to get into his chair, when Ting Lang and all his student friends set upon him.

Who acts: official, Ting · What happens: attempt, get, set · To what, where: chair

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 (official, Ting), 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 that	case
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 attempted	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 attempted	nsubj
4	attempted	attempt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 get	mark
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 attempted	xcomp
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 chair	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 chair	nmod:poss
9	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 set	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 set	advmod
12	Ting	Ting	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 set	nsubj
13	Lang	Lang	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Ting	flat
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 friends	cc
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 friends	det:predet
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 friends	nmod:poss
17	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 friends	compound
18	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 Ting	conj
19	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 attempted	conj
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 set	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 attempted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	attempt	past	official		with that	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	official not said here	official's chair		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into chair=Destination
3	set	past	Ting and official's student friends		upon official	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent upon he=Destination

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 73

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 73