Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 22
Can there not be many by your master’s name in all these provinces?
Who acts: master · What happens: not be, name · To what, where: provinces
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 (master), 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 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 many | aux |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 many | expl |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 many | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 many | cop |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 name | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 master | nmod:poss |
| 8 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 name | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 master | case |
| 10 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 many | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 provinces | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 provinces | det:predet |
| 13 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 14 provinces | det |
| 14 | provinces | province | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 name | nmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 many | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | can | there | by your master's name in all provinces; many property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | name | your master | all provinces | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent in=place |
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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