Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 98
“Most mighty one, one word would not explain; I have it all in a document which I have here and would beg your Majesty to read.
Who acts: Most mighty one, I, Majesty · What happens: not explain, have, beg, read · To what, where: Lao, document, Majesty · 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 (Most mighty one, I, Majesty), 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 one | punct |
| 2 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 one | amod |
| 3 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 one | amod |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 explain | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 word | nummod |
| 7 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 explain | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 explain | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 explain | advmod |
| 10 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 have | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 explain | ccomp |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 have | obj |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 it | det |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 document | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 document | det |
| 18 | document | document | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 have | obl |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 have | obj |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 have | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 document | acl:relcl |
| 22 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 have | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 beg | cc |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 beg | aux |
| 25 | beg | beg | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 have | conj |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 27 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 beg | obj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 read | mark |
| 29 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 beg | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 explain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not explain speech: assert in a quote | would | Most mighty one | one word nsubj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | I | Lao | a document; here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | I | a document | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient | ||||
| 4 | beg speech: request in a quote | would | I not said here | your Majesty | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent majesty=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | read not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | your Majesty not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «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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