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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 74

They tore off his audience cap, his royal robes, beat him, reviled him, and were in the midst of a free fight with him and his chair-bearers, when Hai Jui came from the audience hall.

Who acts: friends, Hai · What happens: tore off, beat, revile, be, come · To what, where: audience cap, official, midst, audience 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 (friends, Hai), 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

nsubjcompound:prtnmod:posscompoundobjpunctnmod:possamodconjpunctadvclobjpunctconjobjpunctcccopcasedetparataxiscasedetamodnmodcasenmodccnmod:posscompoundpunctconjpunctmarknsubjflatconjcasedetcompoundoblpunctrootTheyPRONtoreVERBoffADPhisPRONaudienceNOUNcapNOUN,PUNCThisPRONroyalADJrobesNOUN,PUNCTbeatVERBhimPRON,PUNCTreviledVERBhimPRON,PUNCTandCCONJwereAUXinADPtheDETmidstNOUNofADPaDETfreeADJfightNOUNwithADPhimPRONandCCONJhisPRONchairNOUN-PUNCTbearersNOUN,PUNCTwhenSCONJHaiPROPNJuiPROPNcameVERBfromADPtheDETaudienceNOUNhallNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs2 torensubj
2toretoreVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3offoffADP_2 torecompound:prt
4hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs6 capnmod:poss
5audienceaudienceNOUNNumber=Sing6 capcompound
6capcapNOUNNumber=Sing2 toreobj
7,,PUNCT_10 robespunct
8hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs10 robesnmod:poss
9royalroyalADJDegree=Pos10 robesamod
10robesrobeNOUNNumber=Plur6 capconj
11,,PUNCT_12 beatpunct
12beatbeatVERBVerbForm=Inf2 toreadvcl
13himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 beatobj
14,,PUNCT_15 reviledpunct
15reviledrevileVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 toreconj
16himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 reviledobj
17,,PUNCT_22 midstpunct
18andandCCONJ_22 midstcc
19werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin22 midstcop
20ininADP_22 midstcase
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 midstdet
22midstmidstNOUNNumber=Sing15 reviledparataxis
23ofofADP_26 fightcase
24aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art26 fightdet
25freefreeADJDegree=Pos26 fightamod
26fightfightNOUNNumber=Sing22 midstnmod
27withwithADP_28 himcase
28himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 fightnmod
29andandCCONJ_33 bearerscc
30hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs33 bearersnmod:poss
31chairchairNOUNNumber=Sing33 bearerscompound
32--PUNCT_31 chairpunct
33bearersbearerNOUNNumber=Plur28 himconj
34,,PUNCT_38 camepunct
35whenwhenSCONJ_38 camemark
36HaiHaiPROPNNumber=Sing38 camensubj
37JuiJuiPROPNNumber=Sing36 Haiflat
38camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin22 midstconj
39fromfromADP_42 hallcase
40thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art42 halldet
41audienceaudienceNOUNNumber=Sing42 hallcompound
42hallhallNOUNNumber=Sing38 cameobl
43..PUNCT_2 torepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1tore offpastfriends = friendofficial's audience cap and official's royal robestree rules
2beatinfinitivefriends = friend not said hereofficialvn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme
3revilepastfriends = friend not said hereofficialvn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4ispastthe midstof a free fight with officialtree rules
5comepastHaithe audience hallvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hall=Initial_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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