Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 53
To this Mr. Kao replied, “The lady, your sister, is in the inner court with her women, another day you may meet her.”
Who acts: lady, Kao · What happens: reply, be, meet · To what, where: Kao, inner court, part · 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 (lady, Kao), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 Kao | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 Kao | nsubj |
| 3 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Kao | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Kao | Kao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obl |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 court | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 court | punct |
| 8 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lady | det |
| 9 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 court | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sister | punct |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sister | nmod:poss |
| 12 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lady | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lady | punct |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 court | cop |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 court | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 court | det |
| 17 | inner | inner | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 court | amod |
| 18 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 women | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 women | nmod:poss |
| 21 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 court | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 meet | punct |
| 23 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 day | det |
| 24 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 meet | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 meet | nsubj |
| 26 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 meet | aux |
| 27 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 replied | parataxis |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 meet | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 meet | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 meet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Kao this Mr. | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to kao=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the lady | the inner court | with part's women | tree rules | |||
| 3 | meet in a quote | may | Kao this Mr. = kao | part | day | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-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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