Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 6
The poor lad poured out his sad story, and at its close the priest said:
Who acts: poor lad · What happens: pour out, close, say · To what, where: sad story, priest · 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 (poor lad), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lad | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lad | amod |
| 3 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 4 | poured | pour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 lad | acl |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 poured | compound:prt |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 story | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 story | amod |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 poured | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 close | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 close | cc |
| 11 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 13 close | mark |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 close | nmod:poss |
| 13 | close | close | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 lad | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 priest | det |
| 15 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 close | obj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pour out | participle | the poor lad not said here | lad's sad story | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Patient | ||||
| 2 | close | infinitive | the priest | story nmod:poss | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent priest=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the poor lad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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.
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