Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 63
He is a poor, stupid man who cannot let wine alone.
Who acts: husband, poor stupid man · What happens: be, not let · To what, where: poor stupid man, wine
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 (husband, poor stupid man), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 man | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 man | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 4 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 poor | punct |
| 6 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 let | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 let | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 let | advmod |
| 11 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 man | acl:relcl |
| 12 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 let | obj |
| 13 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 11 let | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | husband | a poor stupid man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not let | can | a poor stupid man | wine | alone property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Theme |
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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