Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 60
This they did, and fell upon the merry camp and won a great victory.
Who acts: This · What happens: do, fall, win · To what, where: merry camp, great victory
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 (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 did | nsubj |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fell | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 fell | cc |
| 6 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 camp | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 camp | det |
| 9 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 camp | amod |
| 10 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fell | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 won | cc |
| 12 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fell | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 victory | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 victory | amod |
| 15 | victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 won | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | This | kingdoms = kingdom nsubj | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | This not said here | the merry camp | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon camp=Location | ||||
| 3 | win | past | This not said here | a great victory | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent victory=Eventuality |
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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