Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 41
We asked the children of those visited to come to the Sunday-school, and gave them cards telling them when and where to go.
Who acts: We · What happens: ask, visit, come, give, tell, go · To what, where: children, Sunday school, cards · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Nellie N. Russell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 children | det |
| 4 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 asked | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 those | case |
| 6 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 children | nmod |
| 7 | visited | visit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 those | acl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 come | mark |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 visited | xcomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 school | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 school | det |
| 12 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 school | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Sunday | punct |
| 14 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 come | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gave | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 gave | cc |
| 17 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 asked | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 gave | iobj |
| 19 | cards | card | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 gave | obj |
| 20 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 gave | advcl |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 telling | iobj |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 go | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 go | cc |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 go | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 go | mark |
| 26 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 telling | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | We | the children of those | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | visit | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | come | to-infinitive | the Sunday school | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | give | past | We not said here | cards | children = child | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient card=Theme | |||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | gerund | We not said here | cards = card | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | We not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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