Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 66
What is her “new name” up there, think you?
What happens: be, think · To what, where: mother, you
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: 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 her | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 her | cop |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 name | punct |
| 5 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 name | amod |
| 6 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 her | conj |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 name | punct |
| 8 | up | up | ADV | _ | 9 there | advmod |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 name | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 think | punct |
| 11 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 her | conj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 think | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 her | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | mother | What nsubj; new name conj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | infinitive | you | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot you=Theme |
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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