Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 5, sentence 8
She herself then thanked them, and they escorted her to her chair, and to the palace where she was given great honour.
Who acts: mother, sons · What happens: thank, escort, give · To what, where: sons, mother, chair
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 (mother, sons), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thanked | nsubj |
| 2 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 She | conj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 thanked | advmod |
| 4 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thanked | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 escorted | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 escorted | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 escorted | nsubj |
| 9 | escorted | escort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thanked | conj |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 escorted | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 chair | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 chair | nmod:poss |
| 13 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 escorted | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 palace | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 palace | cc |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 palace | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 palace | det |
| 18 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 escorted | parataxis |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 given | advmod |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 given | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 given | aux:pass |
| 22 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 palace | advcl |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 honour | amod |
| 24 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 given | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | mother | sons = son | then | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | escort | past | sons = son | mother | mother's chair | the palace parataxis | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to chair=Destination | ||
| 3 | give | past · passive | mother | great honour obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient honour=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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