Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 13
The Superior Man may be poor in bodily comforts, but he is not poor in wisdom or virtue.
Who acts: Superior Man, Man · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: bodily comforts, wisdom
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 (Superior Man, Man), 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 Man | det |
| 2 | Superior | superior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Man | amod |
| 3 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 poor | nsubj |
| 4 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 poor | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 poor | cop |
| 6 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 comforts | case |
| 8 | bodily | bodily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 comforts | amod |
| 9 | comforts | comfort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 poor | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 poor | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 poor | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 poor | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 poor | cop |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 poor | advmod |
| 15 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 poor | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 wisdom | case |
| 17 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 poor | obl |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 virtue | cc |
| 19 | virtue | virtue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wisdom | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 poor | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | may | the Superior Man | bodily comforts | poor property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not is | present | Man | wisdom or virtue | poor property | tree rules |
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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