Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Chinese Heroism, sentence 26
Hurry, hurry, or we shall be too late!” were our questions and exclamations.
Who acts: you, we · What happens: hurry, be · To what, where: late questions
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, we), 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 | Hurry | hurry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hurry | punct |
| 3 | hurry | hurry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hurry | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 late | punct |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 late | cc |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 late | nsubj |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 late | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 late | cop |
| 9 | too | too | ADV | _ | 10 late | advmod |
| 10 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 questions | amod |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 late | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 late | punct |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 questions | cop |
| 14 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 questions | nmod:poss |
| 15 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Hurry | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 exclamations | cc |
| 17 | exclamations | exclamation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 questions | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hurry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurry | imperative | you not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hurry | infinitive | you not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | shall | we | late property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | past | our late questions and exclamations | our nmod:poss; exclamations conj | 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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