Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Orient, sentence 27
Many times did she make her prostrations, and at his command she told her story with much weeping.
Who acts: Glory, Emperor · What happens: make, tell, prostrate, command · To what, where: prostrations, story, command · 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, Emperor), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 times | amod |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 make | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 make | aux |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 make | nsubj |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 prostrations | nmod:poss |
| 7 | prostrations | prostration | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 make | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 told | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 told | cc |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 command | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 command | nmod:poss |
| 12 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 told | obl |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 told | nsubj |
| 14 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 make | parataxis |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 story | nmod:poss |
| 16 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 told | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 weeping | case |
| 18 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 weeping | amod |
| 19 | weeping | weeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 told | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · do-support | Glory | Glory's prostrations | time | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prostration=Product | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Glory | Glory's story | Emperor's command | with much weeping | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | ||
| 3 | prostrate | Glory | nom prostration «state transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | command | Emperor | nom command «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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