Mova0.5 pre-release⌕
☰
home / corpora / tales / Gleanings from Chinese folklore / A Chinese Hero / 14

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 14

As he poured the earth into the hole, he kept stirring the ball around, thereby keeping it on top of the earth until he could reach it with his hand.

Who acts: Han · What happens: pour, keep, stir around, reach · To what, where: earth, hole, ball, top

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 (Han), 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

marknsubjadvcldetobjcasedetoblpunctnsubjxcompdetobjadvmodpunctadvmodconjobjcaseoblcasedetnmodmarknsubjauxadvclobjcasenmod:possoblpunctrootAsSCONJhePRONpouredVERBtheDETearthNOUNintoADPtheDETholeNOUN,PUNCThePRONkeptVERBstirringVERBtheDETballNOUNaroundADV,PUNCTtherebyADVkeepingVERBitPRONonADPtopNOUNofADPtheDETearthNOUNuntilSCONJhePRONcouldAUXreachVERBitPRONwithADPhisPRONhandNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AsasSCONJ_3 pouredmark
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 pourednsubj
3pouredpourVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 keptadvcl
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 earthdet
5earthearthNOUNNumber=Sing3 pouredobj
6intointoADP_8 holecase
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 holedet
8holeholeNOUNNumber=Sing3 pouredobl
9,,PUNCT_3 pouredpunct
10hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 keptnsubj
11keptkeepVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
12stirringstirVERBVerbForm=Ger11 keptxcomp
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 balldet
14ballballNOUNNumber=Sing12 stirringobj
15aroundaroundADV_12 stirringadvmod
16,,PUNCT_18 keepingpunct
17therebytherebyADV_18 keepingadvmod
18keepingkeepVERBVerbForm=Ger12 stirringconj
19ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 keepingobj
20ononADP_21 topcase
21toptopNOUNNumber=Sing18 keepingobl
22ofofADP_24 earthcase
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 earthdet
24earthearthNOUNNumber=Sing21 topnmod
25untiluntilSCONJ_28 reachmark
26hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 reachnsubj
27couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin28 reachaux
28reachreachVERBVerbForm=Inf18 keepingadvcl
29ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 reachobj
30withwithADP_32 handcase
31hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs32 handnmod:poss
32handhandNOUNNumber=Sing28 reachobl
33..PUNCT_11 keptpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1pourpastHanthe earththe holevn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent earth=Theme into hole=Destination
2keeppastHantree rules
3stir aroundgerundHan not said herethe ballaround propertyvn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus ball=Experiencer
4keepgerundHan not said hereearthtop of the earththereby propertyvn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme on top=Location
5reachcouldHanearthwith Han's handvn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/9/14/