Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 62
Although a boy in years, he is a man, yes a son of a god in ability and talent.
Who acts: Man · What happens: be · To what, where: man
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 (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 | Although | although | SCONJ | _ | 3 boy | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 man | advcl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 years | case |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 boy | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 boy | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 man | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 man | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 son | punct |
| 12 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 14 son | discourse |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 son | det |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 man | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 god | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 god | det |
| 17 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 son | nmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 ability | case |
| 19 | ability | ability | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 god | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 talent | cc |
| 21 | talent | talent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ability | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Man | a man | a son of a god in ability and talent nmod; a boy in years advcl | 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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