Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Tartar Joan of Arc, sentence 21

The proud maiden was furious at being thus scorned, and blowing her horn summoned the men of the mountains to hear the insult offered her and to revenge her wrong.

Who acts: proud maiden, blowing · What happens: be, scorn, blow, summon, hear, offer · To what, where: horn, men, insult, 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 (proud maiden, blowing), 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	3 maiden	det
2	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 maiden	amod
3	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 furious	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 furious	cop
5	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	at	at	SCONJ	_	9 scorned	mark
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 scorned	aux:pass
8	thus	thus	ADV	_	9 scorned	advmod
9	scorned	scorn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 furious	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 summoned	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 summoned	cc
12	blowing	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 summoned	csubj
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 horn	nmod:poss
14	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 blowing	obj
15	summoned	summon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 furious	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 men	det
17	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 summoned	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 mountains	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 mountains	det
20	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 men	nmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 hear	mark
22	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 summoned	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 insult	det
24	insult	insult	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hear	obj
25	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 furious	parataxis
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 offered	iobj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 wrong	cc
28	to	to	PART	_	29 revenge	mark
29	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 wrong	nsubj
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 wrong	nmod:poss
31	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 offered	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 furious	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the proud maiden			furious property	tree rules
2	scorn	gerund · passive	the proud maiden not said here			thus property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»
3	blow	gerund		Ting's horn			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent horn=Patient
4	summon	past	blowing		the men of the mountains		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Recipient
5	hear	to-infinitive	blowing not said here	the insult			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer insult=Stimulus
6	offer	past			Ting		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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 21

The tree

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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Tartar Joan of Arc, sentence 21