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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 40

Nien Chi inquired of a “street keeper” who lived in the place, and great was his delight when he heard that it was the family hated by his master.

Who acts: Nien, street keeper, gatekeeper · What happens: inquire, live, be, hear, hate · To what, where: place, great delight, family · 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, street keeper, gatekeeper), 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

nsubjflatcasedetpunctcompoundoblpunctnsubjacl:relclcasedetoblpunctccamodcopnmod:possobladvmodnsubjacl:relclmarknsubjcopdetccompaclcasenmod:possoblpunctrootNienPROPNChiPROPNinquiredVERBofADPaDET“PUNCTstreetNOUNkeeperNOUN”PUNCTwhoPRONlivedVERBinADPtheDETplaceNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJgreatADJwasAUXhisPRONdelightNOUNwhenADVhePRONheardVERBthatSCONJitPRONwasAUXtheDETfamilyNOUNhatedVERBbyADPhisPRONmasterNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NienNienPROPNNumber=Sing3 inquirednsubj
2ChiChiPROPNNumber=Sing1 Nienflat
3inquiredinquireVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4ofofADP_8 keepercase
5aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art8 keeperdet
6“"PUNCT_8 keeperpunct
7streetstreetNOUNNumber=Sing8 keepercompound
8keeperkeeperNOUNNumber=Sing3 inquiredobl
9”"PUNCT_8 keeperpunct
10whowhoPRONPronType=Rel11 livednsubj
11livedliveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 keeperacl:relcl
12ininADP_14 placecase
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 placedet
14placeplaceNOUNNumber=Sing11 livedobl
15,,PUNCT_20 delightpunct
16andandCCONJ_20 delightcc
17greatgreatADJDegree=Pos20 delightamod
18wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin20 delightcop
19hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs20 delightnmod:poss
20delightdelightNOUNNumber=Sing3 inquiredobl
21whenwhenADVPronType=Int23 heardadvmod
22hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs23 heardnsubj
23heardhearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin20 delightacl:relcl
24thatthatSCONJ_28 familymark
25ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 familynsubj
26wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 familycop
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 familydet
28familyfamilyNOUNNumber=Sing23 heardccomp
29hatedhateVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass28 familyacl
30bybyADP_32 mastercase
31hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs32 masternmod:poss
32mastermasterNOUNNumber=Sing29 hatedobl
33..PUNCT_3 inquiredpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1inquire speech: otherpastNienof a street keepervn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of keeper=Recipient
2livepasta street keeperthe placevn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location
3is apastNien's great delightNien nmod:posstree rules
4hearpastNienvn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
5is apastgatekeeperthe familytree rules
6hateparticiplethe family not said hereby Nien's mastervn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer

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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