Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Tartar Joan of Arc, sentence 4
The children, breathing in the spirit of their fathers, played at sham battles and dreamed of rescuing their land.
Who acts: children · What happens: breathe, play, dream, rescue · To what, where: spirit, fathers, sham battles, land
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 (children), 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 | 2 children | det |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 breathing | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 breathing | punct |
| 4 | breathing | breathe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 spirit | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 spirit | det |
| 7 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 breathing | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 fathers | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 fathers | nmod:poss |
| 10 | fathers | father | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 spirit | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 played | punct |
| 12 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 fathers | acl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 battles | case |
| 14 | sham | sham | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 battles | compound |
| 15 | battles | battle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 played | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 dreamed | cc |
| 17 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 breathing | conj |
| 18 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 19 rescuing | mark |
| 19 | rescuing | rescue | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 dreamed | advcl |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 land | nmod:poss |
| 21 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rescuing | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 breathing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | breathe | gerund | the children | the spirit of children's fathers | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | play | participle | children's fathers not said here | sham battles | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | dream | past | the children not said here | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | rescue | gerund | the children not said here | children's land | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=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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