Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 154
[1] A common Chinese expression for discomfort, pain, or sorrow.
To what, where: common Chinese expression
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: 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 1 | punct |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 expression | discourse |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 1 | punct |
| 4 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 expression | det |
| 5 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 expression | amod |
| 6 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 expression | amod |
| 7 | expression | expression | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 discomfort | case |
| 9 | discomfort | discomfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 expression | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pain | punct |
| 11 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 expression | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sorrow | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 sorrow | cc |
| 14 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 expression | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 expression | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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