Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 87
His wife coming in at the moment, he called to her “to look at the magic bench.”
Who acts: wife · What happens: come in, call, look · To what, where: sigh · 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 (wife), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 wife | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 called | nsubj |
| 3 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 wife | acl |
| 4 | in | in | ADV | _ | 3 coming | advmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 moment | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 moment | det |
| 7 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 coming | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 wife | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 called | nsubj |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 called | obl |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 look | punct |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 look | mark |
| 15 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 called | advcl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 bench | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bench | det |
| 18 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 bench | amod |
| 19 | bench | bench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 look | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 look | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in | gerund | Buddha's wife not said here | moment | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call speech: assert | past | Buddha's wife | sigh | Buddha nsubj | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | |||
| 3 | look in a quote | to-infinitive | Buddha's wife not said here | at the magic bench | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at bench=Theme |
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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