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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 108

But he thought, “These are surely two gods in disguise,” and kneeling before them he said, “I prostrate myself to you, my Teachers.

Who acts: Chi, These · What happens: think, be, kneel, say, prostrate · To what, where: two gods, disguise, Chi, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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, These), 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

ccnsubjpunctpunctnsubjcopadvmodnummodccompcasenmodpunctpunctcccsubjcaseoblnsubjconjpunctpunctnsubjccompobjcaseoblpunctnmod:possoblpunctrootButCCONJhePRONthoughtVERB,PUNCT“PUNCTThesePRONareAUXsurelyADVtwoNUMgodsNOUNinADPdisguiseNOUN,PUNCT”PUNCTandCCONJkneelingVERBbeforeADPthemPRONhePRONsaidVERB,PUNCT“PUNCTIPRONprostrateVERBmyselfPRONtoADPyouPRON,PUNCTmyPRONTeachersNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ButbutCCONJ_3 thoughtcc
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 thoughtnsubj
3thoughtthinkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4,,PUNCT_10 godspunct
5“"PUNCT_10 godspunct
6ThesethisPRONNumber=Plur PronType=Dem10 godsnsubj
7arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin10 godscop
8surelysurelyADV_9 twoadvmod
9twotwoNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card10 godsnummod
10godsgodNOUNNumber=Plur3 thoughtccomp
11ininADP_12 disguisecase
12disguisedisguiseNOUNNumber=Sing10 godsnmod
13,,PUNCT_10 godspunct
14”"PUNCT_10 godspunct
15andandCCONJ_20 saidcc
16kneelingkneelVERBVerbForm=Ger20 saidcsubj
17beforebeforeADP_18 themcase
18themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs16 kneelingobl
19hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs20 saidnsubj
20saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 thoughtconj
21,,PUNCT_24 prostratepunct
22“"PUNCT_24 prostratepunct
23IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs24 prostratensubj
24prostrateprostrateVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin20 saidccomp
25myselfmyselfPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes24 prostrateobj
26totoADP_27 youcase
27youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs24 prostrateobl
28,,PUNCT_30 Teacherspunct
29mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs30 Teachersnmod:poss
30TeachersteacherNOUNNumber=Plur24 prostrateobl
31..PUNCT_3 thoughtpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1think speech: otherpastChivn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2is a in a quotepresentThesetwo godsdisguisetree rules
3kneelgerundbefore men = manvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before they=Location
4say speech: assertpastChivn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5prostrate in a quotepresentChiChiyoumy Teachers obltree rules

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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