Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow, sentence 14
In a loud, shrill voice, he said, “Every one listens to me!
Who acts: goose, one · What happens: say, listen · To what, where: loud shrill voice, goose · 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 (goose, one), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 6 voice | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 voice | det |
| 3 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 voice | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 loud | punct |
| 5 | shrill | shrill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 voice | amod |
| 6 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 voice | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 listens | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 listens | punct |
| 12 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 one | det |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 listens | nsubj |
| 14 | listens | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 listens | obl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | goose | a loud shrill voice | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in voice=Manner | ||||
| 2 | listen in a quote | present | every one | goose | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to i=Theme |
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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