Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 61
“A great man has come among us in our new ‘Chuang Yuan.’
Who acts: great man · What happens: come · To what, where: new Chuang Yuan
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 (great 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 come | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 come | aux |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | among | among | ADP | _ | 8 us | case |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 come | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Yuan | case |
| 10 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 Yuan | nmod:poss |
| 11 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Yuan | amod |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 new | punct |
| 13 | Chuang | Chuang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Yuan | compound |
| 14 | Yuan | Yuan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 come | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present · perfect | a great man | our new Chuang Yuan | among us | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among we=Location |
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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