Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 9
I know a teacher of great ability, who lives at my inn; I will see what he can do.”
Who acts: I, great ability, teacher · What happens: know, live, see, do · To what, where: teacher, inn · 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 (I, great ability, teacher), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 teacher | det |
| 4 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 know | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 ability | case |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ability | amod |
| 7 | ability | ability | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 teacher | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lives | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 lives | nsubj |
| 10 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 ability | acl:relcl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 inn | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 inn | nmod:poss |
| 13 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lives | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 see | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 see | aux |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 know | parataxis |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 do | obj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 do | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 do | aux |
| 21 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 see | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | a teacher of great ability | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer teacher=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | live | present | great ability | my inn | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at inn=Location | ||||
| 3 | see | future | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | do | can | teacher | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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