Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 36
Nien Chi was very angry, his eyes pained him furiously, and as soon as he could open them with any comfort he called to his friend:
Who acts: Nien, eyes · What happens: be, pain, open, call · To what, where: Nien, eyes, comfort, friend · 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, eyes), 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 | Nien | Nien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 angry | nsubj |
| 2 | Chi | Chi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Nien | flat |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 angry | advmod |
| 5 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pained | punct |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 pained | nsubj |
| 9 | pained | pain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 pained | obj |
| 11 | furiously | furiously | ADV | _ | 9 pained | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 open | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 open | cc |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 soon | advmod |
| 15 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 open | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 open | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 open | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 open | aux |
| 19 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 angry | parataxis |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 open | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 comfort | case |
| 22 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 comfort | det |
| 23 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 open | obl |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 called | nsubj |
| 25 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 comfort | acl:relcl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 friend | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 friend | nmod:poss |
| 28 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 called | obl |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Nien | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pain | past | Nien's eyes | Nien | furiously property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | open | could | Nien | eyes = eye | with any comfort; soon property | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with comfort=Instrument | |||
| 4 | call | past | Nien | any comfort not said here | Nien's friend | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent comfort=Topic to friend=Recipient |
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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