Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 118
“Some great men have just entered our street and are coming this way.”
What happens: enter, come · To what, where: great men, way
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: 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 entered | punct |
| 2 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 men | det |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 men | amod |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 entered | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 entered | aux |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 entered | advmod |
| 7 | entered | enter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 street | nmod:poss |
| 9 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 entered | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 coming | cc |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 coming | aux |
| 12 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 entered | conj |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 way | det |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 coming | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 entered | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter in a quote | present · perfect · passive | some great men | our street obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | present · progressive | this way | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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