Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Present, sentence 1
In Manchuria, not far from Mukden, lived a well-to-do farmer by the name of Lee.
What happens: live, do, name · To what, where: Manchuria, farmer, Lee
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Daughter of the Present. 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Manchuria | case |
| 2 | Manchuria | Manchuria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 lived | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Mukden | punct |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 far | advmod |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 Mukden | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 Mukden | case |
| 7 | Mukden | Mukden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Manchuria | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Manchuria | punct |
| 9 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 do | det |
| 11 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 do | advmod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 do | case |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 to | punct |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 lived | ccomp |
| 16 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 do | obj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 name | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 name | det |
| 19 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 do | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Lee | case |
| 21 | Lee | Lee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 name | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Manchuria and Mukden | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | infinitive | farmer | by the name of Lee; well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farmer=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | name | Lee | nom name «communication transitive»: of=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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