Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Jade Treasure, sentence 51
One day a poorly-clad stranger came to the city and went from house to house begging.
Who acts: clad stranger · What happens: come, go · To what, where: city, house
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 (clad stranger), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 stranger | det |
| 4 | poorly | poorly | ADV | _ | 6 clad | advmod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 poorly | punct |
| 6 | clad | clad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stranger | amod |
| 7 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 city | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 city | det |
| 11 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | conj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 house | case |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 begging | case |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 begging | compound |
| 18 | begging | begging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a clad stranger | the city | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | go | past | a clad stranger not said here | house | to house begging | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from house=Initial_Location to begging=Destination |
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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