Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Orient, sentence 23
Here she knocked her head to the soldiers on guard and asked to be allowed to see the Emperor.
Who acts: Glory · What happens: knock, ask, allow, see · To what, where: head, soldiers, Emperor · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Glory), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 knocked | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 knocked | nsubj |
| 3 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 head | nmod:poss |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knocked | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 soldiers | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 soldiers | det |
| 8 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 knocked | obl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 guard | case |
| 10 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 soldiers | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 asked | cc |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knocked | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 allowed | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 allowed | aux:pass |
| 15 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 asked | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 see | mark |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 allowed | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Emperor | det |
| 19 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 see | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knocked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | knock | past | Glory | Glory's head | the soldiers on guard; here | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent head=Theme to soldier=Destination | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Glory not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | allow not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Emperor | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer emperor=Stimulus |
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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