Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 27
The owner of the place replied, “I am able to give what you ask, but not to-night as I am in great trouble.”
Who acts: owner, you · What happens: reply, be, give, ask · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (owner, you), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 owner | det |
| 2 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 place | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 place | det |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 owner | nmod |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 able | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 able | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 able | nsubj |
| 10 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 able | cop |
| 11 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 replied | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 give | mark |
| 13 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 able | xcomp |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 ask | obj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 ask | nsubj |
| 16 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 give | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 night | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 night | cc |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 night | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 night | case |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 to | punct |
| 22 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 trouble | case |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 trouble | nsubj |
| 25 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 trouble | cop |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 trouble | case |
| 27 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 trouble | amod |
| 28 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 night | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 trouble | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 trouble | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the owner of the place | night | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the owner of the place = owner | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give in a quote | to-infinitive | the owner of the place = owner not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present | you | what obj | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | the owner of the place = owner | as great trouble | tree rules |
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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