Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 77

They had told him that the three hundred and sixty literary men who had been at the feast had set upon and were beating Yen Kë Lao.

What happens: tell, set, beat · To what, where: words, Emperor, hundred literary men, feast, Yen Kë · Speech: someone speaks here

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: 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	aux
3	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 set	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hundred	det
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 hundred	compound
8	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 men	nummod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sixty	cc
10	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 hundred	conj
11	literary	literary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 men	amod
12	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 set	nsubj
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 set	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 set	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 set	aux:pass
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 feast	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 feast	det
18	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 set	obl
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 set	aux
20	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 told	ccomp
21	upon	upon	ADP	_	20 set	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 beating	cc
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 beating	aux
24	beating	beat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 set	conj
25	Yen	Yen	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Kë	compound
26	Kë	Kë	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 beating	obj
27	Lao	Lao	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Kë	flat
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive	words = word	Emperor			tree rules
2	set	past · perfect · passive	hundred literary men		the feast	who nsubj:pass	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme at feast=Destination
3	beat	past · progressive	Yen Kë				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location kë=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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 77

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 77