Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 133
Can you give up all these and drink from the holes by the roadside?”
Who acts: you · What happens: give up, drink · To what, where: these, holes
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 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 give | nsubj |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 give | compound:prt |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 these | det:predet |
| 6 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 give | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 drink | cc |
| 8 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 give | conj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 holes | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 holes | det |
| 11 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 drink | obl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 roadside | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 roadside | det |
| 14 | roadside | roadside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drink | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give up | can | you | these | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Source | ||||
| 2 | drink | infinitive | you not said here | the holes | by the roadside | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from hole=Source |
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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