Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 81
There is going to be a rebellion, have a care, your Majesty.”
What happens: go, be, have · To what, where: rebellion, care
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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 going | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 going | aux |
| 3 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 rebellion | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 rebellion | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 rebellion | det |
| 7 | rebellion | rebellion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 going | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 going | parataxis |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 care | det |
| 11 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Majesty | punct |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 14 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 care | appos |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 going | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · progressive | there | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | a rebellion | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have | present | a care | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Patient |
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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