Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Orient, sentence 22

Now, in those days the Emperor of China was not shut away from his people as he was later, and little Glory was taken by her father’s steward to the palace gate.

Who acts: China, steward · What happens: not shut away, be, take · To what, where: Emperor, little Glory

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 (China, steward), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 shut	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 days	case
4	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 days	det
5	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 shut	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Emperor	det
7	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 shut	nsubj:pass
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 China	case
9	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Emperor	nmod
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 shut	aux:pass
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 shut	advmod
12	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	away	away	ADV	_	12 shut	advmod
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 people	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 people	nmod:poss
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 shut	obl
17	as	as	ADP	_	20 later	case
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 later	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 later	cop
20	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 shut	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 taken	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 taken	cc
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Glory	amod
24	Glory	Glory	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 taken	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 taken	aux:pass
26	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 shut	conj
27	by	by	ADP	_	31 steward	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 father	nmod:poss
29	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 steward	nmod:poss
30	’s	's	PART	_	29 father	case
31	steward	steward	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 taken	obl
32	to	to	ADP	_	35 gate	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 gate	det
34	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 gate	compound
35	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 steward	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 shut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not shut away	past · passive		the Emperor of China	now; day	from China's people; away property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	is	past	China			late property	tree rules
3	take	past · passive	Glory's father's steward to the palace gate	little Glory			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument subject=Destination

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 Daughter of the Orient, sentence 22

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Orient, sentence 22