Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 47
He was the talk of the city; and people predicted a great fortune for him.
Who acts: student, people · What happens: be, predict · To what, where: talk, great fortune
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 (student, people), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 talk | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 talk | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 talk | det |
| 4 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 city | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 city | det |
| 7 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 talk | nmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 predicted | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 predicted | cc |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 predicted | nsubj |
| 11 | predicted | predict | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 talk | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 fortune | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fortune | amod |
| 14 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 predicted | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 predicted | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 talk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | student | the talk | of the city | tree rules | |||
| 2 | predict | past | people | a great fortune | for student | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fortune=Topic |
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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