Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 42
As the already disappointed scholar turned away he said, “What can I hope for when such a man as that is executed?”
Who acts: disappointed scholar, scholar · What happens: turn away, say, hope, execute · To what, where: man · 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 (disappointed scholar, scholar), 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 | _ | 6 turned | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 scholar | det |
| 3 | already | already | ADV | _ | 4 disappointed | advmod |
| 4 | disappointed | disappointed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 scholar | amod |
| 5 | scholar | scholar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 turned | nsubj |
| 6 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 turned | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hope | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 hope | punct |
| 12 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 hope | obj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 hope | aux |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 hope | nsubj |
| 15 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 when | case |
| 17 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 24 executed | mark |
| 18 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 man | det:predet |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 executed | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 that | case |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 man | nmod |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 executed | aux:pass |
| 24 | executed | execute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 hope | advcl |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn away | past | the disappointed scholar | away property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | scholar | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hope in a quote | can | scholar | What obj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | execute in a quote | present · passive | such man as that | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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