Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 107
When Chi Hsiao Tang came up to them they did not lift their heads or look up, seemed only interested in their game.
Who acts: Chi, men · What happens: come up, not lift, look up, seem · To what, where: men, heads
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 (Chi, men), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 came | mark |
| 2 | Chi | Chi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 3 | Hsiao | Hsiao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Tang | compound |
| 4 | Tang | Tang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Chi | conj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 lift | advcl |
| 6 | up | up | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | obl |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 lift | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 lift | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 lift | advmod |
| 12 | lift | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 heads | nmod:poss |
| 14 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 lift | obj |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 look | cc |
| 16 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 lift | conj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 look | compound:prt |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 seemed | punct |
| 19 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 look | advcl |
| 20 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 interested | advmod |
| 21 | interested | interested | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 seemed | xcomp |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 game | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 game | nmod:poss |
| 24 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 interested | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 lift | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past | Chi and Hsiao Tang | men = man | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | not lift | past · do-support | men = man | men's heads | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look up | infinitive | men = man not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | seem | past | men = man not said here | interested property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: 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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