Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 33
“This man means to annoy us; he is an evil man.”
Who acts: man · What happens: mean, annoy, be · To what, where: us, evil man
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 (man), 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 | _ | 4 means | punct |
| 2 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | nsubj |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 annoy | mark |
| 6 | annoy | annoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 means | xcomp |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 annoy | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 man | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 man | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 man | cop |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 12 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean in a quote | present | this man | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | annoy not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | this man not said here | us | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus we=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | man | a evil man | 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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