Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 89
The men said, “It is a voice of a god, a warning, let us depart at once,” and that night they left the camp.
Who acts: men, name, us, god · What happens: say, be, let, depart, leave · To what, where: voice, us, camp · 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 (men, name, us, god), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 men | det |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 voice | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 voice | punct |
| 6 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 voice | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 voice | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 voice | det |
| 9 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 god | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 god | det |
| 12 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 voice | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 warning | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 warning | det |
| 15 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 god | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 let | punct |
| 17 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 18 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 let | obj |
| 19 | depart | depart | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 let | xcomp |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 once | case |
| 21 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 19 depart | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 let | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 let | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 left | cc |
| 25 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 night | det |
| 26 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 left | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 left | nsubj |
| 28 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 camp | det |
| 30 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 left | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the men | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | name | a voice | of a god and a warning | tree rules | |||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | depart in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | leave | past | god | the camp | night | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camp=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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