Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow, sentence 36
We have our unchanging customs of going north in the spring and south in the winter.
Who acts: We, unchanging customs · What happens: have, go · To what, where: unchanging customs
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, unchanging customs), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 customs | nmod:poss |
| 4 | unchanging | unchanging | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 customs | amod |
| 5 | customs | custom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 going | mark |
| 7 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 customs | acl |
| 8 | north | north | ADV | _ | 7 going | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 spring | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 spring | det |
| 11 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 north | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 south | cc |
| 13 | south | south | ADV | _ | 8 north | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 winter | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 winter | det |
| 16 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 north | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | We | our unchanging customs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent custom=Patient | ||||
| 2 | go | gerund | our unchanging customs not said here | north property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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