Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Tartar Joan of Arc, sentence 12

When their enemies were thus overcome Chin Ting’s father and mother thought that the time had come when their daughter should marry.

Who acts: enemies, father, time, daughter · What happens: be, think, come, marry · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (enemies, father, time, daughter), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	6 overcome	mark
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 enemies	nmod:poss
3	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 overcome	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 overcome	cop
5	thus	thus	ADV	_	6 overcome	advmod
6	overcome	overcome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 thought	advcl
7	Chin	Chin	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Ting	compound
8	Ting	ting	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 father	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 Ting	case
10	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thought	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 mother	cc
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 father	conj
13	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 come	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 time	det
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 come	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 come	aux
18	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 thought	ccomp
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 marry	advmod
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 daughter	nmod:poss
21	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 marry	nsubj
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 marry	aux
23	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 come	advcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	tribes's enemies	overcome, thus property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	Chin Ting's father and mother		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	come	past · perfect	the time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	marry	should	tribes's daughter		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Tartar Joan of Arc, sentence 12

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Tartar Joan of Arc, sentence 12