Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 12
Chi Hsiao Tang replied, “I am a man of mean ability, but that is indeed an easy subject which you give me.
Who acts: Chi, that, you · What happens: reply, be, give · To what, where: man, easy subject, Chi · 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, that, 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 | Chi | Chi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 replied | nsubj |
| 2 | Hsiao | Hsiao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Chi | flat |
| 3 | Tang | Tang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 man | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 man | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 man | nsubj |
| 8 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 man | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 replied | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 ability | case |
| 12 | mean | mean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ability | amod |
| 13 | ability | ability | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 man | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 subject | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 subject | cc |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 subject | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 subject | cop |
| 18 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 21 subject | advmod |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 subject | det |
| 20 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 subject | amod |
| 21 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 replied | advcl |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 give | obj |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 give | nsubj |
| 24 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 subject | acl:relcl |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 give | iobj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Chi | Tang nsubj | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | Chi | a man | of mean ability | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | that | a easy subject | indeed property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | give in a quote | present | you | a easy subject | Chi | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient which=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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