Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 50
Then she told him the story of his father’s coming to the city, her father’s interest in him, and her marriage.
Who acts: wife, story, father · What happens: tell, come, interest, marry · To what, where: story, father, city · 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 (wife, story, father), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 told | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 story | det |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | obj |
| 7 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 coming | mark |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 father | nmod:poss |
| 9 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 coming | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 father | case |
| 11 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 story | acl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 city | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 city | det |
| 14 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 coming | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 interest | punct |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 father | nmod:poss |
| 17 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 interest | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 father | case |
| 19 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 city | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 interest | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 marriage | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 marriage | cc |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 25 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | wife | the story | father | then | wife's marriage obl | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic | |
| 2 | come | gerund | the story not said here | the city and wife's father's interest in father | father's father nmod:poss | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | interest | wife's father | in father | nom interest «cognition transitive»: poss=agent in=obl | |||||
| 4 | marry | wife | nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/19/50/