Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 135
“Please call her,” said the head steward, and the neighbours went and said, “Mrs. Yü, some men at the gate are seeking you.
Who acts: head steward, neighbours, Mrs. · What happens: call, say, go, seek · To what, where: woman, you · 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 (head steward, neighbours, Mrs.), 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 | _ | 3 call | punct |
| 2 | Please | please | INTJ | _ | 3 call | discourse |
| 3 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 call | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 call | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 call | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 steward | det |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 steward | compound |
| 10 | steward | steward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 went | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 neighbours | det |
| 14 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 went | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 seeking | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 seeking | punct |
| 20 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 seeking | nsubj |
| 21 | Yü | Yü | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Mrs. | flat |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 men | punct |
| 23 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 men | det |
| 24 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 seeking | nsubj |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 gate | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 gate | det |
| 27 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 men | nmod |
| 28 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 seeking | aux |
| 29 | seeking | seek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 said | ccomp |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 seeking | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call in a quote | infinitive | woman | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the head steward | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go | past | the neighbours | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the neighbours not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | seek in a quote | present · progressive | Mrs. | you | some men at the gate nsubj | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
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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