Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 11
“It is too late for you to go to-night; come to my palace, all of you, carts and all, and spend the night.
Who acts: silver, you · What happens: be, go, come, spend · To what, where: palace
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 (silver, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 late | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 late | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 late | cop |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 late | advmod |
| 5 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 go | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 go | nsubj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 go | mark |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 late | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 night | case |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 to | punct |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 go | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 late | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 palace | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 palace | nmod:poss |
| 17 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 come | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 all | punct |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 palace | appos |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 you | case |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 all | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 carts | punct |
| 23 | carts | cart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 palace | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 all | cc |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 palace | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 spend | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 spend | cc |
| 28 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 come | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 night | det |
| 30 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 spend | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 late | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | silver | late property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | to-infinitive | you | night | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come in a quote | infinitive | my palace and carts | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | spend in a quote | infinitive | night | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: 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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