Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Jade Treasure, sentence 39
At last he said, “The residents of the inner palace” (i.e., ladies) “have heard of this wonderful stone and are most anxious to see it.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: say, hear, be, see · To what, where: residents, last, stone · 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 (Prince), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 residents | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 residents | punct |
| 7 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 residents | det |
| 8 | residents | resident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 said | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 palace | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 palace | det |
| 11 | inner | inner | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 palace | amod |
| 12 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 residents | nmod |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 palace | punct |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 ladies | punct |
| 15 | i.e. | i.e. | ADV | _ | 17 ladies | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 i.e. | punct |
| 17 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 palace | appos |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 ladies | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 heard | punct |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 heard | aux |
| 21 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 said | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 stone | case |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 stone | det |
| 24 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 stone | amod |
| 25 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 heard | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 anxious | cc |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 anxious | cop |
| 28 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 29 anxious | advmod |
| 29 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 heard | conj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 see | mark |
| 31 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 anxious | advcl |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 see | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Prince | the residents of the inner palace | last | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | hear in a quote | present · perfect | Prince not said here | of this wonderful stone | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of stone=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Prince not said here | anxious property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see in a quote | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | stone | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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