Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 60
I will tell you a plan; you buy a coffin and put it under your window.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: tell, buy, put · To what, where: plan, you, coffin, window · 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 (I, you), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 tell | aux |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | iobj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 plan | det |
| 6 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tell | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 buy | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 buy | nsubj |
| 9 | buy | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 tell | parataxis |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 coffin | det |
| 11 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 buy | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 put | cc |
| 13 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 buy | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 put | obj |
| 15 | under | under | ADP | _ | 17 window | case |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 window | nmod:poss |
| 17 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 put | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | future | I | a plan | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient plan=Topic | |||
| 2 | buy | present | you | a coffin | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coffin=Theme | ||||
| 3 | put | infinitive | you not said here | coffin | your window | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme under window=Destination |
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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