Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 37

“Have you any proof of your father?” was the next question.

Who acts: you · What happens: have, be, proof · To what, where: proof, next question, father · 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 (you), 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	_	14 question	punct
2	Have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 question	csubj
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Have	nsubj
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 proof	det
5	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Have	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 father	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 father	nmod:poss
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 proof	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Have	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Have	punct
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 question	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 question	det
13	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 question	amod
14	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 question	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	you	any proof of your father	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proof=Patient
2	be speech: other	past		the next question	tree rules
3	proof in a quote			your father	nom proof «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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 37

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 37