Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 104
The other man was dressed in black, had a dark face, protruding eyes, and a long black beard.
What happens: dress, have, protrude · To what, where: other man, black, dark face, eyes
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: 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 | 3 man | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dressed | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dressed | aux:pass |
| 5 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 black | case |
| 7 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dressed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dressed | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 face | det |
| 11 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 face | amod |
| 12 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 protruding | punct |
| 14 | protruding | protrude | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 had | advcl |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 protruding | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 beard | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 beard | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 beard | det |
| 19 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 beard | amod |
| 20 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 beard | amod |
| 21 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dressed | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | past · passive | the other man | black | a long black beard obl | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | have | past | a dark face | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient | |||||
| 3 | protrude | gerund | eyes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=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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