Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 89
You a Teacher to talk of a magic bench.”
What happens: talk · To what, where: Teacher
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: 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 Teacher | nsubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 Teacher | det |
| 3 | Teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 talk | mark |
| 5 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 Teacher | acl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 bench | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bench | det |
| 8 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bench | amod |
| 9 | bench | bench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 talk | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Teacher | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Teacher | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | to-infinitive | of a magic bench | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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