Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 48
Thus Han Hsin was left to himself, and returned to his own country and village.
What happens: leave, return · To what, where: Han
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: 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 5 left | advmod |
| 2 | Han | Han | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 left | nsubj |
| 3 | Hsin | Hsin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Han | flat |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | aux:pass |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 himself | case |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 left | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 returned | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 returned | cc |
| 10 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 country | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 country | nmod:poss |
| 13 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 country | amod |
| 14 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 returned | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 village | cc |
| 16 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 country | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · passive | Han | Han | thus property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to himself=Recipient | |||
| 2 | return | past | to Han's own country and village result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to country=Result |
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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