Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 99
I ask you again only this: have you a family in the north?”
Who acts: I · What happens: ask, have · To what, where: you, north
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), 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 | 2 ask | nsubj |
| 2 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 ask | obj |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 ask | advmod |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 this | advmod |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 again | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 ask | parataxis |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 have | obj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 family | det |
| 11 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 north | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 north | det |
| 14 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 ask | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | I | you | again | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||
| 2 | have | infinitive | you | the north | a family obj | tree rules |
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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