Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Tartar Joan of Arc, sentence 15

She wrote her vow on a tablet and had it set up in the main pass through which all must go to reach the heights.

Who acts: Ting, vow, main, all · What happens: write, have, set up, pass, go, reach · To what, where: vow, tablet, heights

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, vow, main, all), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wrote	nsubj
2	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 vow	nmod:poss
4	vow	vow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wrote	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 tablet	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tablet	det
7	tablet	tablet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wrote	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 had	cc
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wrote	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	obj
11	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 had	xcomp
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 set	compound:prt
13	in	in	SCONJ	_	16 pass	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 main	det
15	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 pass	nsubj
16	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 set	advcl
17	through	through	ADP	_	18 which	case
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 go	obl
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 go	nsubj
20	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 go	aux
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 pass	ccomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 reach	mark
23	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 go	xcomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 heights	det
25	heights	height	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 reach	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wrote	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	write	past	Ting	Ting's vow	a tablet		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent vow=Theme on tablet=Destination
2	have	past	Ting not said here	vow			tree rules
3	set up	participle	vow not said here				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	pass	present	the main				tree rules
5	go	must	all			which obl	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	reach	to-infinitive	all not said here	the heights			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent height=Theme
7	vow		Ting				nom vow «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 15

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Tartar Joan of Arc, sentence 15