Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 144
For a moment Chi Hsiao Tang’s heart failed him, but he resolutely put down the disgust and nausea which the sickening sore produced, and answered as before, “I can dress it, Worthy Teacher.”
Who acts: heart, Chi, disgust, I · What happens: fail, put down, sicken, sore, produce, answer · To what, where: Chi, disgust, sickening sore, sore · 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 (heart, Chi, disgust, I), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 failed | obl |
| 4 | Chi | Chi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 heart | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Hsiao | Hsiao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Chi | flat |
| 6 | Tang | Tang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Chi | flat |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Chi | case |
| 8 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 failed | nsubj |
| 9 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 failed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 put | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 put | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 put | nsubj |
| 14 | resolutely | resolutely | ADV | _ | 15 put | advmod |
| 15 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 failed | conj |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 put | compound:prt |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 disgust | det |
| 18 | disgust | disgust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 put | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 nausea | cc |
| 20 | nausea | nausea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 disgust | conj |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 sore | nsubj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sore | det |
| 23 | sickening | sicken | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 sore | amod |
| 24 | sore | sore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 disgust | appos |
| 25 | produced | produce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 sore | acl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 answered | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 answered | cc |
| 28 | answered | answer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 produced | conj |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 before | case |
| 30 | before | before | ADV | _ | 28 answered | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 dress | punct |
| 32 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 dress | punct |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 dress | nsubj |
| 34 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 dress | aux |
| 35 | dress | dress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 answered | conj |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 dress | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 Teacher | punct |
| 38 | Worthy | worthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 Teacher | amod |
| 39 | Teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 dress | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 produced | punct |
| 41 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 sore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fail | past | Chi's heart | Chi | moment | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | put down | past | Chi | the disgust and nausea | resolutely property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent disgust=Goal | |||
| 3 | sicken | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | sore | the disgust and nausea | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | produce | participle | the sickening sore not said here | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | answer speech: assert | participle | before property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | dress in a quote | can | I | sore | Worthy Teacher obl | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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