Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 123
We will call the best teacher in the land and the boys shall study together;” then again he put his hand on Ting Lang’s shoulder and said:
Who acts: We, boys, boy · What happens: call, study, put, say · To what, where: best teacher, land, hand, shoulder · 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 (We, boys, 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 call | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 call | aux |
| 3 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 teacher | det |
| 5 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 teacher | amod |
| 6 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 call | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 land | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 land | det |
| 9 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 call | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 study | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boys | det |
| 12 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 study | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 study | aux |
| 14 | study | study | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 call | conj |
| 15 | together | together | ADV | _ | 14 study | advmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 call | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 call | punct |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 put | advmod |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 21 put | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 put | nsubj |
| 21 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 call | advcl |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 hand | nmod:poss |
| 23 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 put | obj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 shoulder | case |
| 25 | Ting | Ting | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 26 | Lang | Lang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Ting | flat |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 Ting | case |
| 28 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 put | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 said | cc |
| 30 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 put | conj |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | future | We | the best teacher | the land | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | |||
| 2 | study | shall | the boys | together property | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | put in a quote | past | boy | boy's hand | Ting's shoulder | then; again | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on shoulder=Destination | ||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | boy not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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