Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow, sentence 31
Because of this we always fly either in the shape of the character ‘Man’ or the figure one.
Who acts: we · What happens: fly · To what, where: shape
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 (we), 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 | Because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 3 this | case |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 1 Because | fixed |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 fly | obl |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 fly | nsubj |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 fly | advmod |
| 6 | fly | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 10 shape | cc:preconj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 shape | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 shape | det |
| 10 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fly | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 character | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 character | det |
| 13 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shape | nmod |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 Man | punct |
| 15 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 character | appos |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 Man | punct |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 one | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 one | det |
| 19 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 one | compound |
| 20 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 character | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | present | we | the shape of the character or the figure one | because this; always property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in shape=Location |
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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