Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 102
“I will see to the rest,” and in a few days what seemed as a dream to Mr. Kao, or Mr. Tu, as he took back his old name, became a reality.
Who acts: Hu, few days, Kao · What happens: see, seem, take back, become, name · To what, where: Kao, old name, reality · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hu, few days, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 rest | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rest | det |
| 7 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 see | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 days | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 days | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 days | det |
| 13 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 days | amod |
| 14 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 see | conj |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 seemed | nsubj |
| 16 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 days | acl:relcl |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 dream | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 dream | det |
| 19 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seemed | obl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 Kao | case |
| 21 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Kao | nmod:desc |
| 22 | Kao | Kao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 seemed | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Tu | punct |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 Tu | cc |
| 25 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Tu | nmod:desc |
| 26 | Tu | Tu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Kao | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 took | punct |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 took | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 took | nsubj |
| 30 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | parataxis |
| 31 | back | back | ADV | _ | 30 took | advmod |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 name | nmod:poss |
| 33 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 name | amod |
| 34 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 took | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 became | punct |
| 36 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 took | conj |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 reality | det |
| 38 | reality | reality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 became | xcomp |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | future | Hu Mr. = hu | to the rest | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | a few days | Kao Mr. or Tu Mr. | as a dream | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | take back | past | Kao | Kao's old name | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme | ||||
| 4 | become | past | Kao not said here | a reality | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | name | Kao | nom name «communication 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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