Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow, sentence 15
Again I ask, who are you with your lofty airs?
Who acts: I · What happens: ask, be · To what, where: you · 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 (I), 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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 3 ask | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ask | nsubj |
| 3 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 you | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 you | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 you | cop |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 ask | ccomp |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 airs | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 airs | nmod:poss |
| 10 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 airs | amod |
| 11 | airs | air | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 you | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | I | again | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | you | with your lofty airs; who nsubj | 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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