Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 82

After passing the time of day, he remarked on the beauty of Mr. Kao’s writing and his evident familiarity with the Chinese Classics; “Neither do you look to me to be a man of the common people or one who should be in this prison dress.”

Who acts: Yang, Neither, common people, Kao · What happens: pass, remark, look, be, write · To what, where: beauty, Yang, man, one prison dress · 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 (Yang, Neither, common people, 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	2 passing	mark
2	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 remarked	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 passing	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 day	case
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 time	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 passing	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 remarked	nsubj
9	remarked	remark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 beauty	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 beauty	det
12	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 remarked	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	17 writing	case
14	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Kao	nmod:desc
15	Kao	Kao	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 writing	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 Kao	case
17	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 beauty	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 familiarity	cc
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 familiarity	nmod:poss
20	evident	evident	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 familiarity	amod
21	familiarity	familiarity	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 beauty	conj
22	with	with	ADP	_	25 Classics	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Classics	det
24	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 Classics	amod
25	Classics	classic	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 familiarity	nmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 look	punct
27	“	"	PUNCT	_	31 look	punct
28	Neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	31 look	nsubj
29	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 look	aux
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 look	nsubj
31	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 remarked	parataxis
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 me	case
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 look	obl
34	to	to	PART	_	37 man	mark
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 man	cop
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 man	det
37	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 look	advcl
38	of	of	ADP	_	41 people	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 people	det
40	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 people	amod
41	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 man	nmod
42	or	or	CCONJ	_	43 one	cc
43	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	50 dress	nummod
44	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	50 dress	nsubj
45	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 dress	aux
46	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	50 dress	cop
47	in	in	ADP	_	50 dress	case
48	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	50 dress	det
49	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 dress	compound
50	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 people	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 remarked	punct
52	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 remarked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	gerund	Yang not said here				time		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	remark speech: assert	participle	Yang			the beauty of Kao Mr.'s writing and Yang's evident familiarity with the Chinese Classics			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	look in a quote	present · do-support	Neither		Yang			you nsubj	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to i=Theme
4	is a in a quote	to-infinitive	Neither not said here	a man				of the common people	tree rules
5	is in a quote	should	the common people			this one prison dress			tree rules
6	write		Kao Mr.						nom writing «act 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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 82

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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 82