Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Orient, sentence 38
When little Glory was taken to the prison where her father was confined, she knelt before him and told him of her visit to the palace and the Emperor’s promise.
Who acts: Glory, Emperor · What happens: take, confine, kneel, tell, visit, promise · To what, where: little Glory, prison, father · 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 taken | mark |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Glory | amod |
| 3 | Glory | Glory | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 taken | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 taken | aux:pass |
| 5 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 knelt | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 prison | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prison | det |
| 8 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taken | obl |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 confined | advmod |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 father | nmod:poss |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 confined | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 confined | aux:pass |
| 13 | confined | confine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 prison | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 taken | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 knelt | nsubj |
| 16 | knelt | kneel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | before | before | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 knelt | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 told | cc |
| 20 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 knelt | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 told | iobj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 visit | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 visit | nmod:poss |
| 24 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 told | obl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 palace | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 palace | det |
| 27 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 visit | nmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 promise | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Emperor | det |
| 30 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 promise | nmod:poss |
| 31 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 30 Emperor | case |
| 32 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 visit | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 knelt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · passive | little Glory | the prison | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to prison=Destination | ||||
| 2 | confine | past · passive | Glory's father | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | kneel | past | Glory | before father | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | Glory not said here | father | of Glory's visit to the palace and the Emperor's promise | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 5 | visit | Glory | to the palace | nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl | |||||
| 6 | promise | the Emperor | nom promise «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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