Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 43
She is always kind to the old grandmother, who has a terrible temper.
Who acts: mother, old grandmother · What happens: be, have · To what, where: terrible temper
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 (mother, old grandmother), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kind | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 kind | cop |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 kind | advmod |
| 4 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 grandmother | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 grandmother | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 grandmother | amod |
| 8 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kind | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 has | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 has | nsubj |
| 11 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 grandmother | acl:relcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 temper | det |
| 13 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 temper | amod |
| 14 | temper | temper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 has | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | mother | to the old grandmother; always, kind property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | the old grandmother | a terrible temper | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temper=Patient |
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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