Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 71
The great Yen Sung looked around; not a friendly face; his own grew a little fearful, and yet in a loud voice he called out:
Who acts: great Yen Sung, own, Sung · What happens: look around, grow, call out · To what, where: loud voice
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 Yen Sung, own, Sung), 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 | 4 Sung | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Sung | amod |
| 3 | Yen | Yen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Sung | compound |
| 4 | Sung | Sung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | around | around | ADV | _ | 5 looked | advmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 face | punct |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 face | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 face | det |
| 10 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 face | amod |
| 11 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | parataxis |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 grew | punct |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 own | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 grew | nsubj |
| 15 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looked | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 little | det |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fearful | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | fearful | fearful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 grew | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 yet | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 yet | cc |
| 21 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 15 grew | advmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 voice | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 voice | det |
| 24 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 voice | amod |
| 25 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 yet | obl |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 called | nsubj |
| 27 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 voice | acl:relcl |
| 28 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 called | compound:prt |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look around | past | the great Yen Sung | a friendly face parataxis; around property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | Sung's own | yet | fearful property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | call out speech: assert | past | Sung | a loud voice not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent voice=Recipient |
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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