Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow, sentence 9
Hardly had he taken a sip when the little sparrow called out, “Who are you?
Who acts: goose, you · What happens: take, call out, be · To what, where: sip, little sparrow · 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 (goose, you), 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 | Hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 4 taken | advmod |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 taken | nsubj |
| 4 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sip | det |
| 6 | sip | sip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taken | obj |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 called | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sparrow | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sparrow | amod |
| 10 | sparrow | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 called | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 taken | parataxis |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 called | compound:prt |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Who | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Who | punct |
| 15 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 taken | parataxis |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 Who | cop |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 Who | nsubj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · perfect | goose | a sip | hardly property | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent sip=Theme clause=Attribute | |||
| 2 | call out speech: assert | participle · passive | the little sparrow | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | you | tree rules |
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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