Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 112
“You are rich; why are you not satisfied with the things which money will buy?” was the next question.
Who acts: You, money · What happens: be, not be, buy · To what, where: next question · 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 (You, money), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 rich | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 rich | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 rich | cop |
| 4 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 question | csubj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 satisfied | punct |
| 6 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 satisfied | advmod |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 satisfied | cop |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 satisfied | nsubj |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 satisfied | advmod |
| 10 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rich | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 things | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 things | det |
| 13 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 satisfied | obl |
| 14 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 15 money | det |
| 15 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 buy | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 buy | aux |
| 17 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 things | acl:relcl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 rich | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 rich | punct |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 question | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 question | det |
| 22 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 question | amod |
| 23 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 question | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | You | rich property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | present | you | with the things; satisfied property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | buy in a quote | future | which money | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | be speech: other | past | the next question | 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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