Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 26
He caught a glimpse of the beautiful woman inside, and said to his companions:
Who acts: Nien · What happens: catch, say, glimpse · To what, where: glimpse, companions, beautiful woman · 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 (Nien), 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 caught | nsubj |
| 2 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 glimpse | det |
| 4 | glimpse | glimpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 caught | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 woman | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 woman | det |
| 7 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 woman | amod |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 glimpse | nmod |
| 9 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 2 caught | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 caught | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 companions | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 companions | nmod:poss |
| 15 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 said | obl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | Nien | a glimpse of the beautiful woman | inside property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glimpse=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Nien not said here | Nien's companions | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to companion=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | glimpse | the beautiful woman | nom glimpse «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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