Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 88
She replied in astonishment, but with a sense of relief, “What is this, are you bereft of your senses?
Who acts: wife, this, you · What happens: reply, be, sense · To what, where: astonishment, sense, relief · 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, this, you), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 replied | nsubj |
| 2 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 astonishment | case |
| 4 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 replied | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sense | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 sense | cc |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 sense | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 sense | det |
| 9 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 replied | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 relief | case |
| 11 | relief | relief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sense | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bereft | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 bereft | punct |
| 14 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 bereft | obl |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 What | cop |
| 16 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 What | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 What | punct |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 bereft | cop |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 bereft | nsubj |
| 20 | bereft | bereft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sense | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 senses | case |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 senses | nmod:poss |
| 23 | senses | sens | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 bereft | obl |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: ask | past | wife | astonishment | with a sense of relief | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent with sense=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | this | a sense of relief | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | you | of your senses; bereft property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sense | relief | nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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