Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 83
Gradually the kite ascended, and, in the twilight, appeared high over the camp of the three thousand soldiers.
Who acts: kite, twilight · What happens: ascend, appear · To what, where: camp
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 (kite, twilight), 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 | Gradually | gradually | ADV | _ | 4 ascended | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 kite | det |
| 3 | kite | kite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ascended | nsubj |
| 4 | ascended | ascend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 appeared | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 appeared | cc |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 twilight | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 twilight | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 twilight | det |
| 10 | twilight | twilight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 appeared | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 twilight | punct |
| 12 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ascended | parataxis |
| 13 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 appeared | advmod |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 camp | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 camp | det |
| 16 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 appeared | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 soldiers | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 soldiers | det |
| 19 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 thousand | compound |
| 20 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 soldiers | nummod |
| 21 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 camp | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ascended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascend | participle | the kite | gradually property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | appear | past | the twilight | the camp of the thousand soldiers | high property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over camp=Location |
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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