Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 126
You will have to put on coarse cloth garments.
Who acts: You · What happens: have, put · To what, where: coarse cloth garments
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), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | aux |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 put | mark |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 have | xcomp |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 garments | case |
| 7 | coarse | coarse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 garments | amod |
| 8 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 garments | compound |
| 9 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 put | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | future | You | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | put | to-infinitive | You not said here | coarse cloth garments | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on garment=Destination |
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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