Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow, sentence 5
Among the Chinese the wild goose has the reputation for having more virtues and wisdom than any other bird.
Who acts: reputation · What happens: have · To what, where: reputation, more virtues
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 (reputation), 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 | Among | among | ADP | _ | 6 goose | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 goose | det |
| 3 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 goose | amod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 goose | det |
| 5 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 goose | amod |
| 6 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 has | obl |
| 7 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 reputation | det |
| 9 | reputation | reputation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 has | obj |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 having | mark |
| 11 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 reputation | acl |
| 12 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 virtues | amod |
| 13 | virtues | virtue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 having | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wisdom | cc |
| 15 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 virtues | conj |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 bird | case |
| 17 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 bird | det |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 bird | amod |
| 19 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 having | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the reputation | among the Chinese wild goose | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reputation=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | gerund | the reputation not said here | more virtues and wisdom | than any other bird | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent virtue=Patient |
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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