Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 82
Some of his officers were called in and fastened him by ropes to the kite and then let go.
What happens: call in, fasten, let, go · To what, where: officers, Han
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: 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 officers | det |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 officers | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 officers | nmod:poss |
| 4 | officers | officer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 called | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 called | aux:pass |
| 6 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 called | compound:prt |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fastened | cc |
| 9 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 called | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fastened | obj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 ropes | case |
| 12 | ropes | rope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fastened | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 kite | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 kite | det |
| 15 | kite | kite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fastened | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 let | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 let | advmod |
| 18 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 fastened | conj |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 let | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call in speech: assert | past · passive | Han's officers | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | fasten | past | Han | by ropes; to the kite | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Patient to kite=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | then | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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