Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Orient, sentence 13
The fateful day came when the father must go to the capital, there to receive his punishment.
Who acts: fateful day, father · What happens: come, go, receive, punish · To what, where: capital, punishment
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Daughter of the Orient. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fateful day, father), 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 day | det |
| 2 | fateful | fateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 go | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 father | det |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 go | nsubj |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 go | aux |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 came | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 capital | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 capital | det |
| 12 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 go | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 receive | punct |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 receive | expl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 receive | mark |
| 16 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 go | conj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 punishment | nmod:poss |
| 18 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 receive | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the fateful day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | must | the father | the capital | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to capital=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | receive | to-infinitive | the father not said here | father's punishment | there | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent punishment=Theme | |||
| 4 | punish | father | nom punishment «act 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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