Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 69
So, calling up his men to make a lot of bags, even turning their clothes into bags, his army set out.
Who acts: army · What happens: call up, make, turn, set out · To what, where: men, lot, clothes, bags
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 (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 23 set | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 So | punct |
| 3 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 set | advcl |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 calling | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 men | nmod:poss |
| 6 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 calling | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 make | mark |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 calling | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 lot | det |
| 10 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 make | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 bags | case |
| 12 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lot | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 turning | punct |
| 14 | even | even | ADV | _ | 15 turning | advmod |
| 15 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 calling | conj |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 15 turning | obj |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 bags | case |
| 19 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 turning | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 set | punct |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 army | nmod:poss |
| 22 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 set | nsubj |
| 23 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 set | compound:prt |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call up speech: assert | gerund | Han's army not said here | Han's men | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | Han's army not said here | a lot of bags | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lot=Product | ||||
| 3 | turn | gerund | Han's army not said here | bags's clothes | bags | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme into bag=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | set out | past | Han's army | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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