Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 6
Yen Sung, almost in despair, went to his steward and told him his dilemma.
Who acts: Yen · What happens: go, tell · To what, where: steward, dilemma, Yen · 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 (Yen), 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 | Yen | Yen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 went | nsubj |
| 2 | Sung | Sung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Yen | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 despair | punct |
| 4 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 6 despair | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 despair | case |
| 6 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Yen | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yen | punct |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 steward | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 steward | nmod:poss |
| 11 | steward | steward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 told | cc |
| 13 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 told | iobj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 dilemma | nmod:poss |
| 16 | dilemma | dilemma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 told | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Yen | Yen's steward | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to steward=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Yen not said here | Yen's dilemma | Yen | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient dilemma=Topic |
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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