Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 10
He inquired of Mr. Tu when he was going, and on learning that the relief caravan was just starting, he said:
Who acts: caravan, relief caravan · What happens: inquire, go, learn, start, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (caravan, relief caravan), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 inquired | nsubj |
| 2 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Tu | case |
| 4 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Tu | nmod:desc |
| 5 | Tu | Tu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 inquired | obl |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 going | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 going | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 going | aux |
| 9 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 inquired | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 said | cc |
| 12 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 13 learning | mark |
| 13 | learning | learn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 said | advcl |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 starting | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 caravan | det |
| 16 | relief | relief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 caravan | compound |
| 17 | caravan | caravan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 starting | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 starting | aux |
| 19 | just | just | ADV | _ | 20 starting | advmod |
| 20 | starting | start | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 learning | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 learning | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 said | nsubj |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 inquired | parataxis |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inquire speech: other | past | caravan | of Tu Mr. | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of tu=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | caravan | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | learn | gerund | caravan not said here | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | start | past · progressive | the relief caravan | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | caravan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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