Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 106
“Now,” said old Mr. Hu, “tell me all the trouble.”
Who acts: old Hu · What happens: say, tell · To what, where: trouble, old Hu · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old Hu), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Hu | amod |
| 7 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Hu | nmod:desc |
| 8 | Hu | Hu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tell | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 tell | punct |
| 11 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 tell | iobj |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 trouble | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 trouble | det |
| 15 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tell | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 tell | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | old Hu Mr. | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | all trouble | old Hu Mr. = hu | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient trouble=Topic |
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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