Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 5, sentence 1
The sons lifted her from her knees, called the servants who took her to her room, and after arranging her still beautiful black hair, they robed her in garments of honour brought by her son.
Who acts: sons, knees, servants · What happens: lift, call, take, arrange, robe, bring · To what, where: her, knees, servants, room, beautiful black hair, honour · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sons, knees, servants), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sons | det |
| 2 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lifted | nsubj |
| 3 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lifted | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 knees | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 knees | nmod:poss |
| 7 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lifted | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 called | punct |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 knees | acl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 servants | det |
| 11 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 called | obj |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 took | nsubj |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 servants | acl:relcl |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 took | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 room | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 room | nmod:poss |
| 17 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 robed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 robed | cc |
| 20 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 21 arranging | mark |
| 21 | arranging | arrange | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 robed | advcl |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 hair | nmod:poss |
| 23 | still | still | ADV | _ | 24 beautiful | advmod |
| 24 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 hair | amod |
| 25 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 hair | amod |
| 26 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 arranging | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 arranging | punct |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 robed | nsubj |
| 29 | robed | robe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lifted | conj |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 robed | obj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 garments | case |
| 32 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 robed | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 honour | case |
| 34 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 garments | nmod |
| 35 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 honour | acl |
| 36 | by | by | ADP | _ | 38 son | case |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 son | nmod:poss |
| 38 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 brought | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | past | the sons | her = she | her knees | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme from knee=Destination | |||
| 2 | call | participle | her knees not said here | the servants | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent servant=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | take | past | the servants | her = she | her room | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to room=Destination | |||
| 4 | arrange | gerund | sons = son not said here | her beautiful black hair | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Product | ||||
| 5 | robe | past | sons = son | her = she | in garments of honour | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Destination in garment=Theme | |||
| 6 | bring | participle | honour not said here | by her son | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
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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