Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Tartar Joan of Arc, sentence 18
She must surely be some great overgrown ugly creature.
Who acts: Ting · What happens: be · To what, where: great overgrown ugly creature
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Tartar Joan of Arc. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ting), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 creature | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 creature | aux |
| 3 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 9 creature | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 creature | cop |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 creature | nsubj |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 creature | amod |
| 7 | overgrown | overgrown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 creature | amod |
| 8 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 creature | amod |
| 9 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 creature | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | must | Ting | great overgrown ugly creature | surely property | tree rules |
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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