Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 2

One day the Emperor Chia Ching called his scribe, the great and crafty Yen Sung, and said, “I want four poems immediately, one on each of the seasons.”

Who acts: Chia Ching · What happens: call, say, want · To what, where: scribe, four poems · 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 (Chia Ching), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 called	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Ching	det
4	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Chia	compound
5	Chia	Chia	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Ching	compound
6	Ching	Ching	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 called	nsubj
7	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 scribe	nmod:poss
9	scribe	scribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 called	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Sung	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Sung	det
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Sung	amod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 crafty	cc
14	crafty	crafty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 great	conj
15	Yen	Yen	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Sung	compound
16	Sung	Sung	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 scribe	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 called	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 want	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 want	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 want	nsubj
23	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 said	ccomp
24	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 poems	nummod
25	poems	poem	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 want	obj
26	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	23 want	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 one	punct
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 said	ccomp
29	on	on	ADP	_	30 each	case
30	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	28 one	nmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 seasons	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 seasons	det
33	seasons	season	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 each	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 called	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	the Chia Ching		Ching's scribe the great Yen Sung	day		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent scribe=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	the Chia Ching not said here				one on each of the seasons ccomp	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	want in a quote	present	the Chia Ching = ching	four poems			immediately property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot poem=Theme

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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 2

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 2