Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Orient, sentence 37
“This,” said he, “is an expression of my pleasure that such a daughter of the gods lives within the ‘four seas.’”
Who acts: This, daughter, my · What happens: say, be, live, please · To what, where: expression, pleasure · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (This, daughter, my), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 This | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 This | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 expression | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 expression | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 expression | cop |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 expression | det |
| 11 | expression | expression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 pleasure | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 pleasure | nmod:poss |
| 14 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 expression | nmod |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 lives | obj |
| 16 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 daughter | det:predet |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 daughter | det |
| 18 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lives | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 gods | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 gods | det |
| 21 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 daughter | nmod |
| 22 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 pleasure | acl:relcl |
| 23 | within | within | ADP | _ | 27 seas | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 seas | det |
| 25 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 seas | punct |
| 26 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 seas | nummod |
| 27 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 lives | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | This | punishment nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | a expression | of my pleasure | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | live in a quote | present | such daughter of the gods | my pleasure | within the four seas | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme that=Location | |||
| 4 | please in a quote | my | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: poss=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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