Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Orient, sentence 15
He refused, but she persisted with prostrations and knockings of her head on the brick floor.
Who acts: father, offence · What happens: refuse, persist, prostrate · To what, where: brick floor, head
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Daughter of the Orient. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, offence), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 refused | nsubj |
| 2 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 persisted | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 persisted | cc |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 persisted | nsubj |
| 6 | persisted | persist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 refused | conj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 prostrations | case |
| 8 | prostrations | prostration | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 persisted | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 knockings | cc |
| 10 | knockings | knocking | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 prostrations | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 head | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 head | nmod:poss |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 prostrations | nmod |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 floor | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 floor | det |
| 16 | brick | brick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 floor | compound |
| 17 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 persisted | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 refused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | past | father | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | persist | past | offence | the brick floor | with prostrations of offence's head and knockings | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on floor=Location | |||
| 3 | prostrate | offence's head | nom prostration «state transitive»: of=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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