Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 117
The day after the downfall she was busy at home when a neighbour came in and said:
Who acts: day, neighbour · What happens: be, come in, say · To what, where: home · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (day, neighbour), 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 | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 busy | nsubj |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 downfall | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 downfall | det |
| 5 | downfall | downfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 day | nmod |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 busy | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 busy | cop |
| 8 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 home | case |
| 10 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 busy | obl |
| 11 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 14 came | mark |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 neighbour | det |
| 13 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 busy | advcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADV | _ | 14 came | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 came | conj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 busy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the day after the downfall | home | latter nsubj; busy property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come in | past | a neighbour | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | a neighbour not said here | 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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