Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 149
As he stooped and put his lips to what seemed a most loathsome sore, behold! it was a beautiful ripe and luscious peach, bound with invisible bands about the foot.
Who acts: sage, poison · What happens: stoop, put, seem, be, bind · To what, where: lips, beautiful ripe peach
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 (sage, poison), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 stooped | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stooped | nsubj |
| 3 | stooped | stoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 put | cc |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stooped | conj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 lips | nmod:poss |
| 7 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 put | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 seemed | case |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 seemed | nsubj |
| 10 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | parataxis |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 sore | det |
| 12 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 13 loathsome | advmod |
| 13 | loathsome | loathsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sore | amod |
| 14 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 seemed | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 behold | punct |
| 16 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 25 peach | discourse |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 behold | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 peach | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 peach | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 peach | det |
| 21 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 peach | amod |
| 22 | ripe | ripe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 peach | amod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 luscious | cc |
| 24 | luscious | luscious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 ripe | conj |
| 25 | peach | peach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sore | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 bound | punct |
| 27 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 peach | acl |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 bands | case |
| 29 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 bands | amod |
| 30 | bands | band | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 bound | obl |
| 31 | about | about | ADP | _ | 33 foot | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 foot | det |
| 33 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 bands | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stooped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stoop | past | sage | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | put | past | sage not said here | sage's lips | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent lip=Goal | ||||
| 3 | seem | past | what nsubj; sore property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | poison | a beautiful ripe peach | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | bind | participle | a beautiful ripe peach not said here | with invisible bands about the foot | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with band=Co-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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