Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 16
The third day Ting Lang was singing he caught sight of a lady sitting by the window listening.
Who acts: third day, Ting, lady · What happens: sing, catch, sit, listen, sight · To what, where: sight, lady · 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 (third day, Ting, lady), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 singing | nsubj |
| 4 | Ting | Ting | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 day | appos |
| 5 | Lang | Lang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Ting | flat |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 singing | aux |
| 7 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 caught | nsubj |
| 9 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 singing | ccomp |
| 10 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 caught | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 lady | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 lady | det |
| 13 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sight | nmod |
| 14 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 lady | acl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 window | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 window | det |
| 17 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sitting | obl |
| 18 | listening | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 sitting | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 singing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past · progressive | the third day | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | catch | past | Ting | sight of a lady | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sit | gerund | a lady not said here | by the window | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by window=Location | ||||
| 4 | listen | gerund | a lady not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | sight | a lady | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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