Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Jade Treasure, sentence 21
“And why say you so?” the Emperor asked.
Who acts: Emperor · What happens: say, ask · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, The Jade Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Emperor), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 why | cc |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 say | advmod |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 say | obj |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 say | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Emperor | det |
| 10 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent you=Topic | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the Emperor | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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