Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 58
Feeling secure in the thought that the army under Han Hsin could not cross that night, they made a camp and had a feast.
Who acts: kingdoms, army · What happens: feel, not cross, make, have · To what, where: thought, camp, feast
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 (kingdoms, army), 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 | Feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 made | advcl |
| 2 | secure | secure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Feeling | xcomp |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 thought | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 thought | det |
| 5 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Feeling | obl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 cross | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 army | det |
| 8 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cross | nsubj |
| 9 | under | under | ADP | _ | 11 Hsin | case |
| 10 | Han | Han | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Hsin | compound |
| 11 | Hsin | Hsin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 army | nmod |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 cross | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 cross | advmod |
| 14 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 thought | acl:relcl |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 night | det |
| 16 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cross | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Feeling | punct |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 made | nsubj |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 camp | det |
| 21 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 had | cc |
| 23 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 made | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 feast | det |
| 25 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 had | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | gerund | kingdoms = kingdom not said here | in the thought; secure property | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in thought=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | not cross | could | the army under Han Hsin | the thought not said here | night | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Patient | |||
| 3 | make | past | kingdoms = kingdom | a camp | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset camp=Product | ||||
| 4 | have | past | kingdoms = kingdom not said here | a feast | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Patient |
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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