Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 96
He looked north, south, east, and west, nothing but stones and hills, not a human being in sight.
Who acts: teacher · What happens: look, not be · To what, where: human sight
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | north | north | ADV | _ | 2 looked | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 south | punct |
| 5 | south | south | ADV | _ | 2 looked | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 east | punct |
| 7 | east | east | ADV | _ | 2 looked | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 nothing | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 nothing | cc |
| 10 | west | west | ADV | _ | 12 nothing | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 nothing | punct |
| 12 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 looked | parataxis |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 stones | cc |
| 14 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 nothing | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 hills | cc |
| 16 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 stones | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sight | punct |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 sight | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 sight | det |
| 20 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 sight | amod |
| 21 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 sight | cop |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 sight | case |
| 23 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 nothing | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | teacher | nothing stones and hills parataxis; east, north, south property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not is | gerund | teacher not said here | a human sight | tree rules |
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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