Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 85
Much to his surprise, Mr. Kao found his wife waiting for him.
Who acts: Kao, wife, Wang · What happens: find, wait, surprise · To what, where: Much
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, wife, Wang), 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 | Much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 found | obj |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 surprise | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 surprise | nmod:poss |
| 4 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Much | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Much | punct |
| 6 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Kao | nmod:desc |
| 7 | Kao | Kao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 found | nsubj |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wife | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 found | obj |
| 11 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 wife | acl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 waiting | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Kao Mr. | Much | to Wang's surprise; Wang's wife obj | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent much=Theme wife=Attribute | |||
| 2 | wait | gerund | Wang's wife not said here | for Wang | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | surprise | Wang | nom surprise «feeling 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.
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