Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Tartar Joan of Arc, sentence 20

A man of the mountains, who had heard from his lookout post the bitter words, ran in hot haste to Chin Ting and told her all that the General had said and done.

Who acts: mountains, man, General · What happens: hear, run, chin, tell, say, do · To what, where: lookout, hot haste, Ting · 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 (mountains, man, General), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ran	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 mountains	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mountains	det
5	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 man	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 heard	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 heard	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 heard	aux
9	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 mountains	acl
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 lookout	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 lookout	nmod:poss
12	lookout	lookout	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 heard	obl
13	post	post	ADP	_	16 words	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 words	det
15	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 words	amod
16	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 heard	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 man	punct
18	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 haste	case
20	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 haste	amod
21	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ran	obl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 Chin	mark
23	Chin	chin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 ran	advcl
24	Ting	ting	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Chin	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 told	cc
26	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 ran	conj
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 told	iobj
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 said	det:predet
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 said	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 General	det
31	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 said	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 said	aux
33	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 told	ccomp
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 done	cc
35	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 said	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past · perfect	the mountains			general's lookout	post the bitter words	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from lookout=Source
2	run	past	a man of the mountains			hot haste		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in haste=Trajectory
3	chin	to-infinitive	a man of the mountains not said here	Ting				tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	past	a man of the mountains not said here		Ting			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
5	say speech: assert	past · perfect	the General					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	do	participle	the General not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/6/20/

🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Tartar Joan of Arc, sentence 20

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Tartar Joan of Arc, sentence 20