Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow, sentence 11
To this the goose did not reply and the sparrow became angry and asked again, “Who are you, that you should be so proud and lofty you cannot pay attention to my questions?
Who acts: sparrow, goose, my · What happens: not reply, become, ask, be, not pay, question · To what, where: goose, attention · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sparrow, goose, 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 goose | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 goose | det |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 goose | det |
| 4 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reply | obl |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 reply | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 reply | advmod |
| 7 | reply | reply | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 became | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sparrow | det |
| 10 | sparrow | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 became | nsubj |
| 11 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 reply | conj |
| 12 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 became | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 asked | cc |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 became | conj |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 asked | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Who | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Who | punct |
| 18 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 became | parataxis |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 Who | cop |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 Who | nsubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 proud | punct |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 proud | mark |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 proud | nsubj |
| 24 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 proud | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 proud | cop |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 proud | advmod |
| 27 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 pay | csubj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 lofty | cc |
| 29 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 proud | conj |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 pay | nsubj |
| 31 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 pay | aux |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 pay | advmod |
| 33 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 reply | parataxis |
| 34 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 pay | obj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 questions | case |
| 36 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 questions | nmod:poss |
| 37 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 pay | obl |
| 38 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 reply | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not reply speech: ask | past · do-support | this goose | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to goose=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | become | past | the sparrow | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the sparrow not said here | again | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | this goose = goose | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | should | this goose = goose | proud property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | be in a quote | this goose = goose not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | not pay in a quote | can | this goose = goose | attention | to my questions | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset | |||
| 8 | question in a quote | my | nom question «communication 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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