Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 71
Is it not because of the long hours of kneeling on the cold brick floor praying to the Goddess of Mercy?
Who acts: cripple, cold brick floor · What happens: not be, pray
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 (cripple, cold brick floor), 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 hours | cop |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hours | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 hours | advmod |
| 4 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 8 hours | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 because | fixed |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hours | det |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hours | amod |
| 8 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 kneeling | case |
| 10 | kneeling | kneeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hours | nmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 floor | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 floor | det |
| 13 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 floor | amod |
| 14 | brick | brick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 floor | compound |
| 15 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kneeling | nmod |
| 16 | praying | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 floor | acl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Goddess | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Goddess | det |
| 19 | Goddess | Goddess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 praying | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Mercy | case |
| 21 | Mercy | Mercy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Goddess | nmod |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 hours | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | cripple | because the long hours | of kneeling on the cold brick floor | tree rules | |||
| 2 | pray | gerund | the cold brick floor not said here | to the Goddess of Mercy | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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