Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 92
So, Chin Pa was set at liberty and started with his army to return south.
What happens: set, start, return · To what, where: Chin, liberty
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 set | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 So | punct |
| 3 | Chin | Chin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 set | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | Pa | Pa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Chin | flat |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 set | aux:pass |
| 6 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 liberty | case |
| 8 | liberty | liberty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 set | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 started | cc |
| 10 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 set | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 army | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 army | nmod:poss |
| 13 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 started | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 return | mark |
| 15 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 started | advcl |
| 16 | south | south | ADV | _ | 15 return | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past · passive | Chin | liberty | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme at liberty=Destination | ||||
| 2 | start | past | with Chin's army | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with army=Subeventuality | |||||
| 3 | return | to-infinitive | south property | 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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