Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Tartar Joan of Arc, sentence 13

From the north and the south, the east and the west, came offers for her hand, but she would listen to none of them, for she said she had still to rescue her land from their great southern foe, the Chinese.

Who acts: Ting · What happens: come, listen, say, have, rescue · To what, where: offers, north, land, great southern foe · 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 (Ting), 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	From	from	ADP	_	3 north	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 north	det
3	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 south	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 south	det
6	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 north	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 east	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 east	det
9	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 north	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 west	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 west	det
12	west	west	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 east	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 north	punct
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	offers	offer	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 came	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 hand	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 hand	nmod:poss
18	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 listen	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 listen	cc
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 listen	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 listen	aux
23	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 came	conj
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 none	case
25	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	23 listen	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 none	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 said	punct
29	for	for	SCONJ	_	31 said	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 said	nsubj
31	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 listen	advcl
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 had	nsubj
33	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 said	ccomp
34	still	still	ADV	_	33 had	advmod
35	to	to	PART	_	36 rescue	mark
36	rescue	rescue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 had	xcomp
37	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 land	nmod:poss
38	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 rescue	obj
39	from	from	ADP	_	43 foe	case
40	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 foe	nmod:poss
41	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 foe	amod
42	southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 foe	amod
43	foe	foe	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 rescue	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 Chinese	punct
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 Chinese	det
46	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 foe	amod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past		offers	the north and the south and the east and the west		for Ting's hand	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location offer=Theme
2	listen	would	Ting				to none of offers	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to none=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	Ting					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	have	past	Ting			still		tree rules
5	rescue	to-infinitive	Ting not said here	Ting's land	offers's great southern foe			vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent land=Theme from foe=Source

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 13

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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Tartar Joan of Arc, sentence 13