Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 84
Minister Deer asked, “Who will try first, you or I?”
Who acts: Minister · What happens: ask, try · 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 (Minister), 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 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | Deer | Deer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Minister | flat |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 try | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 try | punct |
| 6 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 try | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 try | aux |
| 8 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 asked | ccomp |
| 9 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 try | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 you | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 try | parataxis |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 I | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 you | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 try | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 try | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Minister | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | try in a quote | future | Who nsubj; you parataxis; first property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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