Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 53
“Yes,” said some one, “she is always talking about her foreign friends.
Who acts: woman · What happens: say, talk · To what, where: one · 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 (woman), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 one | det |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 talking | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 talking | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 talking | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 talking | aux |
| 12 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 13 talking | advmod |
| 13 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 said | advcl |
| 14 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 friends | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 friends | nmod:poss |
| 16 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 friends | amod |
| 17 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 talking | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | some one | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent one=Topic | |||||
| 2 | talk in a quote | present · progressive | woman | about woman's foreign friends; always property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about friend=Topic |
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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