Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Tartar Joan of Arc, sentence 10

The men of the land had either been away fighting, or at home tilling laboriously their poor lands, so there was no one who knew the hills and valleys as did Chin Ting.

Who acts: men, fighting, one · What happens: be, fight, till, know, do · To what, where: home, one, hills, Chin Ting

This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Tartar Joan of Arc. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, fighting, one), 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 men	det
2	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fighting	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 land	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 land	det
5	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 men	nmod
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fighting	aux
7	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 away	advmod
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 away	cop
9	away	away	ADV	_	10 fighting	advmod
10	fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 one	csubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 tilling	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 tilling	cc
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 home	case
14	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tilling	obl
15	tilling	till	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 fighting	conj
16	laboriously	laboriously	ADV	_	15 tilling	advmod
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 lands	nmod:poss
18	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 lands	amod
19	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 laboriously	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 was	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	23 was	advmod
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 was	expl
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 one	cop
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 one	det
25	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 knew	nsubj
27	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 one	acl:relcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 hills	det
29	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 knew	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 valleys	cc
31	valleys	valley	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 hills	conj
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 did	mark
33	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 knew	advcl
34	Chin	Chin	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Ting	compound
35	Ting	ting	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 did	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	participle				away, either property	tree rules
2	fight	past	the men of the land				vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	till	gerund	the men of the land not said here		home	laboriously property	tree rules
4	is a	past	fighting	no one			tree rules
5	know	past	no one	the hills and valleys			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer hill=Stimulus
6	do	past	no one not said here	Chin Ting			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ting=Eventuality

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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The tree

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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Tartar Joan of Arc, sentence 10