Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 83
He ordered dinner, and as he sat eating he saw a new bench drop down into his court.
Who acts: Buddha, new bench · What happens: order, sit, eat, see, drop down · To what, where: dinner, court · 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 (Buddha, new bench), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ordered | nsubj |
| 2 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ordered | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sat | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sat | cc |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 sat | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sat | nsubj |
| 8 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ordered | conj |
| 9 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 sat | advcl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 eating | ccomp |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bench | det |
| 13 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bench | amod |
| 14 | bench | bench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drop | nsubj |
| 15 | drop | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 saw | ccomp |
| 16 | down | down | ADV | _ | 15 drop | advmod |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 court | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 court | nmod:poss |
| 19 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drop | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | Buddha | dinner | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit | past | Buddha | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | eat | gerund | Buddha not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | see | past | Buddha | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | drop down | present | a new bench | Buddha's court | down property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into court=Trajectory |
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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