Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 28
“She is thirty-six,” was his reply.
Who acts: mother, thirty six · What happens: be · To what, where: thirty six, reply · 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 (mother, thirty six), 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 | _ | 6 six | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 six | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 six | cop |
| 4 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 six | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 thirty | punct |
| 6 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 reply | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 six | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 six | punct |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 reply | cop |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 reply | nmod:poss |
| 11 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 reply | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | mother | thirty six | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be speech: assert | past | thirty six | boy's reply | boy nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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