Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 18
Seeing the child did not get up, she called to the servant and berated him soundly for his brutality.
Who acts: child · What happens: see, not get up, call, berate · To what, where: servant, Ting · 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 (child), 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 | Seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 called | advcl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 child | det |
| 3 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 get | advmod |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Seeing | ccomp |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 get | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seeing | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 called | nsubj |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 servant | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 servant | det |
| 13 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 called | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 berated | cc |
| 15 | berated | berate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 called | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 berated | obj |
| 17 | soundly | soundly | ADV | _ | 15 berated | advmod |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 brutality | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 brutality | nmod:poss |
| 20 | brutality | brutality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 berated | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | child not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not get up | past · do-support | the child | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | call | past | child | the servant | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to servant=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | berate | past | child not said here | Ting | for Ting's brutality; soundly property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for brutality=Attribute |
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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