Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Russell’s Funeral Service, sentence 8
The long journey to Peking accomplished, a large number of friends, foreign and Chinese, awaited us, and next morning followed the flower-laden bier to the cemetery.
Who acts: long journey · What happens: accomplish, await, follow, lade · To what, where: large number, us, laden bier, cemetery
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Miss Russell’s Funeral Service. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (long journey), 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 | 3 journey | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 journey | amod |
| 3 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 accomplished | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Peking | case |
| 5 | Peking | Peking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 journey | nmod |
| 6 | accomplished | accomplish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 number | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 number | det |
| 9 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 number | amod |
| 10 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 accomplished | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 friends | case |
| 12 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 number | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 foreign | punct |
| 14 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 friends | amod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Chinese | cc |
| 16 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 foreign | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 awaited | punct |
| 18 | awaited | await | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 foreign | conj |
| 19 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 awaited | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 followed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 followed | cc |
| 22 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 morning | amod |
| 23 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 followed | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 accomplished | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 bier | det |
| 26 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 laden | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 flower | punct |
| 28 | laden | lade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 bier | amod |
| 29 | bier | bier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 followed | obj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 cemetery | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 cemetery | det |
| 32 | cemetery | cemetery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 followed | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 accomplished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accomplish | past | the long journey to Peking | a large number of friends | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | await | participle | the long journey to Peking not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | follow | past | the long journey to Peking not said here | the laden bier | the cemetery | morning | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bier=Theme to cemetery=Trajectory | ||
| 4 | lade | participle | flower compound | tree rules |
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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