Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 94
“I dare not look on thy face, great Lord; for a Chuang Yuan to beat a Kë Lao, there must always be a reason.”
Who acts: Hai, reason · What happens: look, beat, be · To what, where: face, Kë Lao
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 (Hai, reason), 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 | _ | 5 look | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 look | nsubj |
| 3 | dare | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 look | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 dare | advmod |
| 5 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 face | case |
| 7 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 face | nmod:poss |
| 8 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 look | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Lord | punct |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Lord | amod |
| 11 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 face | appos |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 look | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 Yuan | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 Yuan | det |
| 15 | Chuang | Chuang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Yuan | compound |
| 16 | Yuan | Yuan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 look | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 beat | mark |
| 18 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 look | advcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 Lao | det |
| 20 | Kë | Kë | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Lao | compound |
| 21 | Lao | Lao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 beat | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 be | punct |
| 23 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 26 be | expl |
| 24 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 be | aux |
| 25 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 26 be | advmod |
| 26 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 look | conj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 reason | det |
| 28 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 be | nsubj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 look | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | present | Hai | thy face | for a Chuang Yuan | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent on face=Location for yuan=Theme | |||
| 2 | beat in a quote | to-infinitive | Hai not said here | a Kë Lao | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lao=Theme | ||||
| 3 | be in a quote | must | a reason | there | always property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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