Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 55
Chi Hsiao Tang looked thoughtful for a moment, and then said, “I will go to some quiet place in the mountains.
Who acts: Chi · What happens: look, say, go · To what, where: mountains · 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 (Chi), 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 | Chi | Chi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | Hsiao | Hsiao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Chi | flat |
| 3 | Tang | Tang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Chi | flat |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | thoughtful | thoughtful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 looked | xcomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 moment | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 moment | det |
| 8 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 said | advmod |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 go | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 go | aux |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 place | case |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 place | det |
| 20 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 place | amod |
| 21 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 go | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 mountains | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 mountains | det |
| 24 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 go | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Chi | moment | thoughtful property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Chi not said here | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | future | Chi | the mountains | to some quiet place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location |
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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