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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 111

The boy said, “I am Ting Lang and am come in search of my father, Tu Ching Ling, known by the name of Kao.

Who acts: boy · What happens: say, be, come, know, search, name · To what, where: Ting, search, Tu, father, Kao · 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 (boy), 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

detnsubjpunctpunctnsubjcopccompflatccauxconjcaseoblcasenmod:possnmodpunctapposflatflatpunctaclcasedetoblcasenmodpunctrootTheDETboyNOUNsaidVERB,PUNCT“PUNCTIPRONamAUXTingPROPNLangPROPNandCCONJamAUXcomeVERBinADPsearchNOUNofADPmyPRONfatherNOUN,PUNCTTuPROPNChingPROPNLingPROPN,PUNCTknownVERBbyADPtheDETnameNOUNofADPKaoPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 boydet
2boyboyNOUNNumber=Sing3 saidnsubj
3saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4,,PUNCT_8 Tingpunct
5“"PUNCT_8 Tingpunct
6IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs8 Tingnsubj
7ambeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin8 Tingcop
8TingTingPROPNNumber=Sing3 saidccomp
9LangLangPROPNNumber=Sing8 Tingflat
10andandCCONJ_12 comecc
11ambeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin12 comeaux
12comecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin3 saidconj
13ininADP_14 searchcase
14searchsearchNOUNNumber=Sing12 comeobl
15ofofADP_17 fathercase
16mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs17 fathernmod:poss
17fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing14 searchnmod
18,,PUNCT_19 Tupunct
19TuTuPROPNNumber=Sing17 fatherappos
20ChingChingPROPNNumber=Sing19 Tuflat
21LingLingPROPNNumber=Sing19 Tuflat
22,,PUNCT_23 knownpunct
23knownknowVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass19 Tuacl
24bybyADP_26 namecase
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 namedet
26namenameNOUNNumber=Sing23 knownobl
27ofofADP_28 Kaocase
28KaoKaoPROPNNumber=Sing26 namenmod
29..PUNCT_3 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertpastthe boyvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2is a in a quotepresentthe boy = boyTingtree rules
3come in a quotepresentthe boy not said heresearch of my fathervn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in search=Location
4know in a quoteparticipleTu not said hereby the name of Kaovn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5search in a quotemy fathernom search «act transitive»: of=patient
6name in a quoteKaonom name «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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