Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 59
“Who are you, and how do you dare to come into this inner court?” and then turning to a servant, she said, “Call your master.”
Who acts: you, Yü · What happens: be, dare, come, turn, say, call · To what, where: you, inner court, servant, master · 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 (you, Yü), 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 you | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 you | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 you | cop |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dare | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 dare | cc |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 dare | advmod |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 dare | aux |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 dare | nsubj |
| 10 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 you | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 come | mark |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 dare | xcomp |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 court | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 court | det |
| 15 | inner | inner | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 court | amod |
| 16 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 come | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 court | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 court | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 turning | cc |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 turning | advmod |
| 21 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 come | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 servant | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 servant | det |
| 24 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 turning | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 said | punct |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 said | nsubj |
| 27 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 dare | parataxis |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Call | punct |
| 29 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 Call | punct |
| 30 | Call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 said | ccomp |
| 31 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 master | nmod:poss |
| 32 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Call | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 Call | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 Call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | you | Who nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dare in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | this inner court | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into court=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | turn | gerund | you not said here | a servant | then | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to servant=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | say speech: ask | past | Yü | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | call in a quote | infinitive | your master | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent master=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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