Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 110
The man in yellow lifted his head and asked, “Where do you come from and why are you not going in for the examinations, for I see that you are a man of no mean ability?”
Who acts: man, you · What happens: lift, ask, come, not go in, see, be · To what, where: head, man · 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 (man, you), 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 | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lifted | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 yellow | case |
| 4 | yellow | yellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 man | nmod |
| 5 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 head | nmod:poss |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lifted | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 asked | cc |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lifted | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 come | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 come | punct |
| 12 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 come | advmod |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 come | aux |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 come | nsubj |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 come | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 going | cc |
| 18 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 going | advmod |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 going | aux |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 going | nsubj |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 going | advmod |
| 22 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 lifted | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADV | _ | 22 going | advmod |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 examinations | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 examinations | det |
| 26 | examinations | examination | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 going | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 see | punct |
| 28 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 30 see | mark |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 see | nsubj |
| 30 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 lifted | conj |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 man | mark |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 man | nsubj |
| 33 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 man | cop |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 man | det |
| 35 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 see | ccomp |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 ability | case |
| 37 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 39 ability | det |
| 38 | mean | mean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 ability | amod |
| 39 | ability | ability | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 man | nmod |
| 40 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 30 see | punct |
| 41 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | past | the man in yellow | Chi's head | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the man in yellow not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not go in in a quote | present · progressive | you | for the examinations | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for examination=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | see in a quote | present | the man in yellow = man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | you | a man | of no mean ability | tree 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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