Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 11
They could not get it out at first and the other lad wanted to call for help.
Who acts: teachers, other lad · What happens: not get out, want, call · To what, where: ball · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Chinese Hero. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (teachers, other lad), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 get | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 get | advmod |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 get | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 get | compound:prt |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 first | case |
| 8 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 get | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wanted | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lad | det |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lad | amod |
| 12 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wanted | nsubj |
| 13 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 call | mark |
| 15 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 wanted | xcomp |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 help | case |
| 17 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 call | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get out | could | teachers = teacher | ball | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | want | past | the other lad | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | call not said to happen | to-infinitive | the other lad not said here | for help | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient |
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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