Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 6

In their theatrical plays their imaginations fill in, with the help of mere suggestions, all that is needed to make their surroundings very real to them.

Who acts: imaginations, heroes · What happens: play, fill in, need, make, imagine, help · To what, where: theatrical, that, surroundings, mere suggestions

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 (imaginations, heroes), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 theatrical	case
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 theatrical	nmod:poss
3	theatrical	theatrical	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 plays	obl
4	plays	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 imaginations	nmod:poss
6	imaginations	imagination	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fill	nsubj
7	fill	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 plays	ccomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	7 fill	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 help	punct
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 help	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 help	det
12	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fill	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 suggestions	case
14	mere	mere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 suggestions	amod
15	suggestions	suggestion	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 help	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 needed	punct
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 needed	det:predet
18	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 needed	nsubj:pass
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 needed	aux:pass
20	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 plays	parataxis
21	to	to	PART	_	22 make	mark
22	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 needed	advcl
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 surroundings	nmod:poss
24	surroundings	surroundings	NOUN	Number=Ptan	22 make	obj
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 real	advmod
26	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 make	xcomp
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 real	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 plays	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	play	present			heroes's theatrical		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	fill in	present	heroes's imaginations			with the help of mere suggestions	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with help=Instrument
3	need	present · passive		that			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme
4	make	to-infinitive		heroes's surroundings		real property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset surroundings=Product
5	imagine		heroes = hero				nom imagination «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
6	help			mere suggestions			nom help «act transitive»: of=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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 6

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 6