Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 70
On reaching the steepest place in ascending the mountains, he commanded the army to halt and fill the bags with earth.
Who acts: army, steepest place · What happens: reach, ascend, command, halt, fill · To what, where: steepest place, mountains, army, bags · Speech: someone speaks here
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, steepest place), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 reaching | mark |
| 2 | reaching | reach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 commanded | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 place | det |
| 4 | steepest | steep | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 place | amod |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reaching | obj |
| 6 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 7 ascending | mark |
| 7 | ascending | ascend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 place | acl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mountains | det |
| 9 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ascending | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 reaching | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 commanded | nsubj |
| 12 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 army | det |
| 14 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 commanded | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 halt | mark |
| 16 | halt | halt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 commanded | xcomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 fill | cc |
| 18 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 halt | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bags | det |
| 20 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 fill | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 earth | case |
| 22 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fill | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 commanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | gerund | army not said here | the steepest place | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ascend | gerund | the steepest place not said here | the mountains | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mountain=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | command | past | army | the army | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent army=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | halt not said to happen | to-infinitive | army not said here | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | fill | infinitive | army not said here | the bags | with earth | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent bag=Patient with earth=Instrument |
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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