Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Tartar Joan of Arc, sentence 5
Chin Ting came gradually to be looked upon as their leader, her wise little head was full of plans, and her eyes would flash fire as she gave her orders to the youths who followed her.
Who acts: Chin Ting, wise little head, eyes, Ting, youths · What happens: come, look, be, flash, give, follow · To what, where: fire, orders, youths, 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 (Chin Ting, wise little head, eyes, 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 | Chin | chin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Ting | compound |
| 2 | Ting | ting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | gradually | gradually | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 looked | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 looked | aux:pass |
| 7 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 came | advcl |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 leader | case |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 leader | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 leader | nmod:poss |
| 11 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 looked | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 full | punct |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 head | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 head | amod |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 head | amod |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 full | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 full | cop |
| 18 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 looked | parataxis |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 plans | case |
| 20 | plans | plan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 full | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 flash | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 flash | cc |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 24 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 flash | nsubj |
| 25 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 flash | aux |
| 26 | flash | flash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 came | conj |
| 27 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 flash | obj |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 gave | mark |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 gave | nsubj |
| 30 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 flash | advcl |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 orders | nmod:poss |
| 32 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 gave | obj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 youths | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 youths | det |
| 35 | youths | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 gave | obl |
| 36 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 followed | nsubj |
| 37 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 youths | acl:relcl |
| 38 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 followed | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Chin Ting | gradually property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive · passive | Chin Ting not said here | upon children's leader | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: upon leader=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Ting's wise little head | of plans; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | flash | would | Ting's eyes | fire | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fire=Theme | ||||
| 5 | give | past | Ting | Ting's orders | the youths | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent order=Theme to youth=Recipient | |||
| 6 | follow | past | the youths | Ting | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 7 | order | Ting | nom order «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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