Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 75
In a few words quiet was restored, and the great Yen Sung, torn and tattered, beaten, and raging like a lion, rushed into the audience hall and, bending before the Emperor, cried out for revenge.
Who acts: few words · What happens: quiet, restore, tear, tatter, beat, rage · To what, where: great Yen Sung, lion, 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 (few words), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 words | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 words | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 words | amod |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 quiet | nsubj |
| 5 | quiet | quiet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 restored | aux:pass |
| 7 | restored | restore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 quiet | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 torn | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 torn | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Sung | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Sung | amod |
| 12 | Yen | Yen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Sung | compound |
| 13 | Sung | Sung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 torn | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 torn | punct |
| 15 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 quiet | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 tattered | cc |
| 17 | tattered | tatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 torn | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 beaten | punct |
| 19 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 tattered | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 cried | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 cried | cc |
| 22 | raging | rage | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 cried | advcl |
| 23 | like | like | ADP | _ | 25 lion | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 lion | det |
| 25 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 raging | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 rushed | punct |
| 27 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 lion | acl |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 31 hall | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 hall | det |
| 30 | audience | audience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 hall | compound |
| 31 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 rushed | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 bending | cc |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 bending | punct |
| 34 | bending | bend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 raging | conj |
| 35 | before | before | ADP | _ | 37 Emperor | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Emperor | det |
| 37 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 bending | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 raging | punct |
| 39 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 quiet | conj |
| 40 | out | out | ADP | _ | 39 cried | compound:prt |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 revenge | case |
| 42 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 cried | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 quiet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quiet | present | a few words | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | restore | past · passive | a few words not said here | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)» | |||||
| 3 | tear | participle · passive | the great Yen Sung | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | tatter | participle | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | beat | participle | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | rage | gerund | like a lion | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | rush | participle | a lion not said here | into the audience hall result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into hall=Result | ||||
| 8 | bend | gerund | before the Emperor | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before emperor=Location | |||||
| 9 | cry out speech: express | past | a few words not said here | for revenge | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for revenge=Recipient |
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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