Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 31
“What is your father’s name?” was her next question.
Who acts: next question, name · What happens: be · To what, where: name, next question · 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 (next question, name), 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 | _ | 7 name | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 name | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 name | cop |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 father | nmod:poss |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 name | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 father | case |
| 7 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 question | nsubj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 name | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 name | punct |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 question | cop |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 question | nmod:poss |
| 12 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 question | amod |
| 13 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 question | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | mother's next question | your father's name | your father nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be speech: other | past | your father's name | mother's next question | mother 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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