Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 102
You cannot go yet; it is a famine year and you must call down rain for us.”
Who acts: You, face · What happens: not go, be, call down · To what, where: famine year, rain
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, face), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 go | advmod |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 year | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 year | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 year | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 year | det |
| 10 | famine | famine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 year | compound |
| 11 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 call | cc |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 call | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 call | aux |
| 15 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | conj |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 call | compound:prt |
| 17 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 call | xcomp |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 us | case |
| 19 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 call | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | can | You | yet | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | face | a famine year | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | call down speech: assert | must | you | rain | for us | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for we=Recipient |
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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