Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 41
“Yes,” chimed in the neighbour, “I had to go too that winter, and your Wen Jung (Literary Glory) was so modest and ladylike, never pushing or crowding, that the official asked who she was and gave her more grain.”
Who acts: official, Wen · What happens: chime, have, go, be, not push, crowd · To what, where: neighbour, official · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Literary Glory. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (official, Wen), 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 chimed | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 chimed | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 5 | chimed | chime | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 neighbour | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 neighbour | det |
| 8 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chimed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 chimed | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 go | mark |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 had | xcomp |
| 15 | too | too | ADV | _ | 14 go | advmod |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 winter | det |
| 17 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 go | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 modest | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 modest | cc |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 Wen | nmod:poss |
| 21 | Wen | Wen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 modest | nsubj |
| 22 | Jung | Jung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Wen | flat |
| 23 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 Literary | punct |
| 24 | Literary | Literary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Wen | appos |
| 25 | Glory | Glory | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Literary | flat |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 24 Literary | punct |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 modest | cop |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 modest | advmod |
| 29 | modest | modest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 had | parataxis |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 ladylike | cc |
| 31 | ladylike | ladylike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 modest | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 pushing | punct |
| 33 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 34 pushing | advmod |
| 34 | pushing | push | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 modest | conj |
| 35 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 36 crowding | cc |
| 36 | crowding | crowd | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 pushing | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 asked | punct |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 asked | mark |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 official | det |
| 40 | official | official | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 asked | nsubj |
| 41 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 had | conj |
| 42 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 46 gave | nsubj |
| 43 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 gave | nsubj |
| 44 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 gave | cop |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 gave | cc |
| 46 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 asked | ccomp |
| 47 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 gave | iobj |
| 48 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 49 grain | amod |
| 49 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 gave | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 chimed | punct |
| 51 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 chimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chime | participle | the neighbour | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | past | the official = official | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | to-infinitive | the official = official not said here | winter | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | past | your Wen | modest property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be in a quote | your Wen not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | not push in a quote | gerund | your Wen not said here | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | crowd in a quote | gerund | your Wen not said here | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | ask speech: ask in a quote | past | the official | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 9 | is in a quote | past | official | who nsubj; more grain obj; give property | 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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