Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Chinese Heroism, sentence 25
“Why are you here, did you not get the message?
Who acts: you · What happens: be, not get · To what, where: message
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Chinese Heroism. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | _ | 5 here | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 here | advmod |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 here | cop |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 here | nsubj |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 get | punct |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 get | aux |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 get | nsubj |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 get | advmod |
| 10 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 here | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 message | det |
| 12 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 get | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | you | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not get in a quote | past · do-support | you | the message | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer message=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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