Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 4

It was in those early days that were born China’s heroes who have been remembered ever since in song and story.

Who acts: little · What happens: be, bear, remember · To what, where: early days, heroes

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 (little), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 days	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 days	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 days	case
4	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 days	det
5	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 days	amod
6	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 born	nsubj:pass
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 born	aux:pass
9	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 days	acl:relcl
10	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 heroes	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 China	case
12	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 born	obl
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 remembered	nsubj
14	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 remembered	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 remembered	aux:pass
16	remembered	remember	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 heroes	acl:relcl
17	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	16 remembered	advmod
18	since	since	ADP	_	20 song	case
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 song	case
20	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 remembered	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 story	cc
22	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 song	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 days	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	little		in that early days		tree rules
2	bear	past · passive		that early days		China's heroes obl	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	remember	present · perfect · passive		China's heroes	since song and story; ever		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=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.

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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 4

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 4