Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 101
He found two men sitting on a stone; one had on a yellow robe, white stockings, and striped shoes.
Who acts: teacher, two men, one · What happens: find, sit, have · To what, where: two men, stone, striped shoes, yellow robe
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Chinese Tea-house Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (teacher, two men, one), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 men | nummod |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 found | obj |
| 5 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 men | acl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 stone | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 stone | det |
| 8 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sitting | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 found | conj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 robe | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 robe | det |
| 14 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 robe | amod |
| 15 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stockings | punct |
| 17 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 stockings | amod |
| 18 | stockings | stocking | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 robe | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 shoes | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 shoes | cc |
| 21 | striped | striped | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 shoes | amod |
| 22 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 had | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | teacher | two men | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic | ||||
| 2 | sit | gerund | two men not said here | a stone | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stone=Location | ||||
| 3 | have | past | one | striped shoes | a yellow robe and white stockings | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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