Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow, sentence 45
Do you not hear parents and teachers tell their children and scholars to come and go quietly by themselves to and from school; to go straight ahead without looking to the right or left; not to gather in groups and chatter like house-sparrows?
Who acts: you, parents · What happens: not hear, tell, come, go, look, not gather · To what, where: children, school, groups · 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 (you, parents), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hear | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 hear | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 hear | advmod |
| 4 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 tell | advcl |
| 5 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 tell | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 teachers | cc |
| 7 | teachers | teacher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 parents | conj |
| 8 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 children | nmod:poss |
| 10 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 tell | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 scholars | cc |
| 12 | scholars | scholar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 children | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 come | mark |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 tell | ccomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 go | cc |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 come | conj |
| 17 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 16 go | advmod |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 themselves | case |
| 19 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 go | obl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 school | case |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 school | cc |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 school | case |
| 23 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 go | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 go | punct |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 go | mark |
| 26 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 tell | conj |
| 27 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 28 ahead | advmod |
| 28 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 26 go | advmod |
| 29 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 30 looking | mark |
| 30 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 go | advcl |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 right | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 right | det |
| 33 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 looking | obl |
| 34 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 35 left | cc |
| 35 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 right | conj |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 gather | punct |
| 37 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 gather | advmod |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 gather | mark |
| 39 | gather | gather | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 tell | parataxis |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 groups | case |
| 41 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 gather | obl |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 chatter | cc |
| 43 | chatter | chatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 gather | conj |
| 44 | like | like | ADP | _ | 47 sparrows | case |
| 45 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 sparrows | compound |
| 46 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 45 house | punct |
| 47 | sparrows | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 chatter | obl |
| 48 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hear | present · do-support | you | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | parents and teachers | parents's children and scholars | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent child=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | come not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | go | infinitive | school | by parents = parent; quietly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | go | to-infinitive | parents and teachers not said here | ahead property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | look | gerund | parents and teachers not said here | to the right | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to right=Theme | ||||
| 7 | not gather | to-infinitive | groups | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | chatter | present | like house sparrows | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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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