Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow, sentence 46
Do not the respectable people do the same on the street and in the house?
Who acts: you, respectable people · What happens: do, not do · To what, where: same, street
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, respectable people), 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 | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 do | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 people | det |
| 4 | respectable | respectable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 people | amod |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 do | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Do | parataxis |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 same | det |
| 8 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 do | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 street | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 street | det |
| 11 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 do | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 house | cc |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 house | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 house | det |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 street | conj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | imperative | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not do | present | the respectable people | the same | the street and the house | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality |
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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