Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 141
“Ah, son! son!
To what, where: son
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 | _ | 4 son | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 4 son | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 son | punct |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 son | vocative |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 son | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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