Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 96

“That is right and fair; to attack just outside of my door, there must be a clear reason and a great one,” then he turned and commanded Ting Lang to tell at once.

Who acts: That, reason · What happens: be, attack, turn, command, tell · To what, where: clear reason, Ting · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (That, 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	_	4 right	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 right	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 right	cop
4	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fair	cc
6	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 right	conj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 attack	punct
8	to	to	PART	_	9 attack	mark
9	attack	attack	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 right	parataxis
10	just	just	ADV	_	14 door	advmod
11	outside	outside	ADP	_	14 door	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	11 outside	fixed
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 door	nmod:poss
14	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 attack	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 reason	punct
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 be	expl
17	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 be	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 reason	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 reason	det
20	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 reason	amod
21	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 attack	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 one	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 one	det
24	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 one	amod
25	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 reason	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 reason	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 attack	punct
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 turned	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 turned	nsubj
30	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 attack	advcl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 commanded	cc
32	commanded	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 turned	conj
33	Ting	ting	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 commanded	obj
34	Lang	Lang	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Ting	appos
35	to	to	PART	_	36 tell	mark
36	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 commanded	advcl
37	at	at	ADP	_	38 once	case
38	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	36 tell	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 right	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	That			right property	tree rules
2	be in a quote		That not said here				tree rules
3	attack in a quote	to-infinitive				outside my door	vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	infinitive		a clear reason and a great one		a great one conj	tree rules
5	turn	past	reason		then		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
6	command	past	reason not said here	Ting			vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent ting=Eventuality
7	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	reason not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 96

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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 96