Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 57
Then he said, “I will wait here for you while you go to the house for our mistress’ treasure.”
Who acts: son, you, mistress · What happens: say, wait, go, treasure · To what, where: house · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, you, mistress), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wait | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 wait | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 wait | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 wait | aux |
| 8 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 wait | advmod |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 you | case |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 wait | obl |
| 12 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 14 go | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 go | nsubj |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 wait | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 house | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 house | det |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 go | obl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 treasure | case |
| 19 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 mistress | nmod:poss |
| 20 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 treasure | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 20 mistress | case |
| 22 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 go | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 wait | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | son | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | wait in a quote | future | son | here | for you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | go in a quote | present | you | the house | for our mistress's treasure | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | treasure in a quote | our mistress | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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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