Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 56
Mr. Kao did not dream of his plan, and very soon was fast asleep; seeing this, Nien Chi went to the family court in the rear and seeing her with her women, he said:
Who acts: Kao, Nien · What happens: not dream, be, see, go, say, plan · To what, where: this, rear, latter · 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 (Kao, 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 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Kao | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Kao | Kao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 dream | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dream | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 dream | advmod |
| 5 | dream | dream | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 said | parataxis |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 plan | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 plan | nmod:poss |
| 8 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dream | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 asleep | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 asleep | cc |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 soon | advmod |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 asleep | advmod |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 asleep | cop |
| 14 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 asleep | advmod |
| 15 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dream | advcl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 seeing | punct |
| 17 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 dream | advcl |
| 18 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 seeing | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 went | punct |
| 20 | Nien | Nien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 went | nsubj |
| 21 | Chi | Chi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Nien | flat |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dream | parataxis |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 court | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 court | det |
| 25 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 court | compound |
| 26 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 went | obl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 rear | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 rear | det |
| 29 | rear | rear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 went | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 seeing | cc |
| 31 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 went | conj |
| 32 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 seeing | obj |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 women | case |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 women | nmod:poss |
| 35 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 seeing | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 said | punct |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 said | nsubj |
| 38 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 39 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 38 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not dream | past · do-support | Kao Mr. | of Kao's plan | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Kao Mr. not said here | asleep, fast, soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | gerund | Kao Mr. not said here | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | go | past | Nien | the rear | to the family court | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to court=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | see | gerund | Nien not said here | latter | with latter's women | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | Nien | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | plan | Kao | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/17/56/